Gavin Shin-Kang Lee, Musicology

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Web Page:	http://www.music.duke.edu

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 Studies	University of Oxford, Jesus College	2002
Postgraduate Diploma in Education	National Institute of Education (Singapore)	2005
BA Music and Humanities Applied Computing minor	King's College London	2001

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).