Keynote: Frederick Lau

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Frederick Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

Fred Lau’s research into identity, modernity and diaspora in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures reveals – and emphasises – the pressing need for international, globally-informed music research networks.  His expertise as a flutist and conductor underpin his contributions to knowledge around issues of musical hybridity, travelling musics, and conceptions of the Western avant-garde.

Biography:  Professor Frederick Lau is an ethnomusicologist whose scholarly interests include a broad range of topics in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures.  He is currently chair of the Department of Music, professor of Ethnomusicology, and director of the Center for Chinese Music Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Besides his numerous published articles, he is author of Music in China (Oxford) and co-editor of Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawaii Press), Vocal Music and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Music: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (Routledge), Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Wesleyan), and China Sound Abroad (upcoming). He is the editor of the book series “Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific,” University of Hawaii Press. Prior to teaching in Hong Kong since 2018, he was professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and California Polytechnic State University.

Respondents: Katie Overy, Director of the Music in Human and Social Development Research Group, The University of Edinburgh, UK; Richard Parncutt, Professor of Systematic Musicology and Director of the Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria.

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