What is Unmusable?

Are you curious about the role of music in society? Are you interested in the ways that the arts are shaped by politics, and vice versa? Are you a fan of East Asian music, film, food, and/or television? Do you enjoy learning about new TV shows, musical genres, or even restaurants?

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Unmusable is a project that grew out of a year of field research in Taiwan. In it, I bring an ethnomusicological perspective to the problem of how music and the arts shape and are shaped by contemporary political cultures.

I am a musician with a doctorate in performance. Finding one doctorate to be inadequate, I went back to school one last time, and am in the final stages of my dissertation in ethnomusicology. Writing from my unique, often irreverent perspective at the intersection of performance and research, my goal is to introduce readers to new repertoires and musical styles, new ideas about music’s role in society, and new understandings about the forces that shape our political environment.

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