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Gavin Shin-Kang Lee, Musicology

Gavin Shin-Kang Lee
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Teaching (Summer2 2012):

  • MUSIC 120.01, ADV SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC Synopsis
    Social Sciences 105, MTuTh 03:30 PM-05:35 PM
Education:

Master of StudiesUniversity of Oxford, Jesus College2002
Postgraduate Diploma in EducationNational Institute of Education (Singapore)2005
BA Music and Humanities Applied Computing minorKing's College London2001
Specialties:

Musicology
Research Interests: Discursive analysis of music and music criticism (19th and 20th centuries)

Current interests include: a) New music in Singapore, the tension between state instrumentalization of aesthetics and national/cultural identification by listeners. b) War of the Romantics, the tension between pure musical object (Hanslick) and the unity of art and Folk (Neudeutsche Schule). c) Intercultural films by Zhang Yimou, Sung-su Kim, Brett Ratner, Rob Cohen; optic/haptic exoticization of Asians through sound and music.

Areas of Interest:

19th century musical discourse
Modernism, postmodernism
Intercultural music (Singapore)
Marxist, postcolonial, feminist, psychoanalytic theory
Film

Keywords:

19th century musical discourse • Modernism, postmodernism • Intercultural music (Singapore) • Marxist, postcolonial, feminist, psychoanalytic theory • Film

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • James B. Duke Fellowship, August, 2009
Selected Grant Support

  • Arts Research and Development Grant, National Arts Council (Singapore).      


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