Research
Interests:
popular
music of Southeast Asia and North America; music and technology;
postcolonial theory; globalization; ethnographic approaches
to popular culture; semiotics; phenomenology; sensory
anthropology; music and identity
Selection
of Recent & Reoccurring Courses:
Introduction
to Popular Culture; Global Popular Music; Youth and Popular
Culture; Cultural Theory and Popular Culture; Genre and
Authenticity in Popular Music Studies; Popular Music in
America, 1885-2005; Music as Popular Culture; Global Popular
Culture
Selected
Publications:
Modern
Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia,
1997-2001. University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming.
Co-editor and contributor (with Harris
M. Berger and Paul D. Greene), Metal Rules The Globe:
Heavy Metal Music Around the World. Chapter
Title: "Unleashed in the East: Metal Music, Masculinity,
and Malay Identity in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore." Edited volume in preparation.
"Notes on Dangdut Music, Popular
Nationalism and Indonesian Islam." In Sonic Modernities:
Popular Music and New Social Formations in the Malay World (Bart Barendregt and Wim van Zanten, eds.), edited
volume in preparation.
"Music
in Southeast Asia." In The World Encyclopedia
of Popular Culture, Volume 6: Asia and Pacific Oceania.
Greenwood Press, forthcoming.
"Underground
Rock Music and Democratization in Indonesia." In World Literature Today (September-December 2005).
"Engineering
Techno-Hybrid Grooves in Two Indonesian Sound Studios."
In Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in
Sonic Cultures (Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello,
eds.). Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press,
pp. 138-155, 2005.
"Of
Gongs and Cannons: Music and Power in Island Southeast
Asia." Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse 3: 1-28, 2004.
"
Dangdut Trendy." Inside Indonesia 78 (April-June): 30, 2004. Online version: http://www.insideindonesia.org/edit78/p30_wallach.html.
"The
Poetics of Electrosonic Presence: Recorded Music and the
Materiality of Sound." Journal of Popular Music
Studies 15(1): 34-64, 2003.
"'Goodbye
My Blind Majesty': Music, Language, and Politics in the
Indonesian Underground." In Global Pop, Local
Language (Harris M. Berger and Michael T. Carroll,
eds.). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 53-86,
2003.
"Exploring
Class, Nation, and Xenocentrism in Indonesian Cassette
Retail Outlets." Indonesia 74 (October):
79-102, 2002.
"World
Beat." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Volume 3: The United States and Canada (Ellen Koskoff,
ed.). New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 337-42, 2001.
Awards
and Honors:
Center
for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Publication subvention for forthcoming book with the University
of Wisconsin Press. (Matching amount approved by BGSU
Scholars Assistance Program.) 2005.
Thesis Advisor, "My Boy Elvis: Gender, Fandom, and
Performance in Rock and Roll" by Angela Fitzpatrick
(M.A., American Culture Studies), winner of the BGSU Graduate
College 2005 Distinguished Thesis Award.
Invited Speaker, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb, IL., Spring 2005
Invited Speaker, Haverford College Young Academic Alumni
Lecture Series, Haverford, PA. Spring 2005.
Invited Speaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department
of Music Colloquium Series, Madison, WI. Spring 2004.
Invited Participant, The Royal Netherlands Institute of
South-East Asian and Caribbean Studies 17th Annual International
Workshop on South-East Asian Studies. Workshop Title:
"South-East Asian Pop Music in a Comparative Perspective."
Leiden, The Netherlands. December 2003
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