Research Interests for Gavin Shin-Kang Lee

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.

Keywords:

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

Areas of Interest:

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