Folk Bands and Artists
Shzr Ee Tan
Shzr Ee Tan is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London, currently researching music and new media in Sinophone worlds. Her research touches on phenomena ranging from viral videos to politico-musical activism on the internet. Shzr Ee completed her Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies, studying Amis aboriginal folksong of Taiwan in interacting contexts of the village, the cultural troupe, the popular music industry and Christian missionisation. Other interests include musical revival and cosmopolitanism, gender studies and the politicisation of music in Sinophone and diasporic communities. Her writings have appeared/ will appear in imprints by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge, among other publishers. Recent scholarly work includes an article in (and co-editing of) Gender in Chinese Music (University of Rochester Press; Harris, Pease & Tan), plus a monograph, “Beyond Innocence”: Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan as an Ecosystem (Ashgate).
