Winnie W C Lai

Academic Interests

Digital humanities
Experimental Ethnography
Hong Kong Studies
listening
Sonic Contestation
Sound studies
Voice Studies

Recent Commons Activity

joined the group Digital Humanities East Asia
joined the group Performance Studies
joined the group Visual Anthropology
joined the group Museums

Commons Sites

HC

Global East Asian Music Research Study Group

About

Please see https://www.winniesound.info/researcher

Education

PhD (Music Studies – Ethnomusicology), 2024, University of Pennsylvania

MPhil (Musicology), 2017, University of Hong Kong

BA (Music), 2013, University of Hong Kong

Blog Posts

Publications

“‘Happy Birthday to You’: Music as Nonviolent Weapon in the Umbrella Movement.” Hong Kong Studies 1, no. 1 (March, 2018): 66-82.

*The article was shortlisted as one of the eight finalist works for the IBP Best Article on Global Hong Kong Studies in Humanities 2021.

Projects

Dissertation: Sounding Freedom: Political Aurality and Sound Acts in Hong Kong (Post-)Protest Spaces

*Awarded the 21st Century Fellowship (2023) from the Society of Ethnomusicology

Memberships

AMS, IMS, SEM

Phd Candidate (Ethnomusicology, Sound Studies)

University Of Pennsylvania