Gavin S. K. Lee
Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Elizabeth Wood fellow, University of Adelaide (2024-5)
Editor, IMS Musicological Brainfood
Editor, Queer Ear (OUP, SMT award); Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music (Routledge); "Global Musical Modernisms" (TCM); "Global Music History Course Design" (JMHP)
Possible student supervision topics (not exclusive):
Chinese minority musics (e.g., Tibetan composer Jokar, Tibetan Buddhist music).
Chinese popular music (e.g., the incorporation of folk singing in pop).
Chinese avant-garde music (e.g., Chinese elements in Chen Yi’s works).
Chinese piano and symphonic music (e.g. Chiang Wen-yeh).
Chinese music aesthetics (e.g., the concept of yun and its role in traditional Chinese music).
Chinese music digital streaming (e.g., TikTok).
Chinese music therapy (e.g., the therapeutic use of Chinese music and medicine).
Chinese music fandom (e.g., fan communities around Chinese pop artists).
Chinese cross-border music transmission (e.g., spread of Chinese music to Japan and Korea, and vice versa).
Chinese in the Cold War (e.g., Sino-Soviet musical relations).
Chinese music and ecology (e.g., music and ecological philosophies like 气).
Chinese AI music technology (e.g., AI generated music).
Human-technology continuum (e.g., Chinese streaming services’ impact on user behavior)
Innovative transmission of traditional music (e.g., the use of WeChat for sharing traditional Chinese tunes).
East Asian virtual pop stars (e.g., Luo Tianyi).
Cultural Revolution (e.g., the use of revolutionary operas as tools of political messaging).
Chinese music and women (e.g., the commodification of women in Jiangnan sizhu music ensembles).
Chinese music and gender (e.g., cross-gender singing in Chinese opera)
Chinese music in Southeast Asia (e.g., traditional Chinese music in Singapore).
Chinese music history (e.g., the guqin during the Tang Dynasty).
Chinese music analysis (e.g., drumming patterns in Peking opera).
QTBIPOC composers (e.g., Julian Eastman)
Queer listening (e.g., queer meaning invested in Schumann's Dichterliebe).
Queer temporalities in music (e.g., non-linear narratives in queer jazz).
Queer opera (e.g., camp aesthetics).
Queer pop (e.g., glam rock).
Queer musicology and activism (e.g., queer choral movement).
Queer spaces and soundscapes (e.g., queer clubs).
Queer folk traditions (e.g., queer Appalachian ballads).
Queer dance scenes (e.g., circuit music).