Articles
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2026): Countering Coloniality in Music and East Asia
Gavin S. K. Lee is a multi-award winning, bimusical Senior Lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium of Music who taught at Soochow University, China, for nine years. His research has been funded by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (“Queer Voices in the Arts”) and Adelaide University’s Elizabeth Wood fellowship (“Music, Ideology, and Alienation in Republican China”). He has won the 2025 Philip Brett Award and the 2025 Teaching Award from the American Musicological Society, and the 2024 Edited Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory. Keynoter for the Musicological Society of Australia 2023 conference, he has been appointed editor of the International Musicological Society’s publication Musicological Brainfood (2023-5), editorial board member of Journal of the American Musicological Society, Indiana Theory Review and Gender Equity, and member of the Society for Ethnomusicology Council (elected, 2022-5) and Society for Ethnomusicology 2023 conference program committee.
Kunio Hara is an associate professor of music history at the University of South Carolina. His research has been funded through support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of South Carolina Office of the Provost. He has collaborated with various opera companies as an expert in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly appearing in Boston Lyric Opera’s 2021/22 virtual discussion series “The Butterfly Process,” working as a cultural consultant for Houston Grand Opera’s 2024 production of the opera, and appearing in pre-concert lectures for the New Orleans Opera, Atlanta Opera, Portland Opera, and Opera Carolina.
Hee-sun Kim is Dean of the College of General Education and Professor of Ethnomusicology at Kookmin University. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. and M.A. in Korean music from the Seoul National University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, in its Cultural Studies cluster. She has held several leadership positions, including Chair of the Musics of East Asia Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance, Director of the Music Research Division at the National Gugak Center, Executive Director of the Jeonju International Sori Festival, and Music Director of the Yeongdong World Gugak Expo. She has published widely in Korean and international journals, as well as in monographs and edited volumes in Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. Her research focuses on the modernization, globalization, and popularization of Korean music; Cold War-era music in Korea and Asia; decolonial approaches to music studies; and the modern history of Korean music in a global context.
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