"Aural Mutiny: Refusals of the Ear"

Benjamin Tausig is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on sound, media, and protest in Thailand, and he works on a variety of Southeast Asian musics in relation to political life, as well as on anthropological theories of sound studies. He has published work in Culture, Theory, and Critique and Positions: Asia Critique, and is currently finishing revisions of a monograph about the 2010-11 anti-government protests in Bangkok.

This lecture is sponsored by the Music and Sound Studies Working Group, and co-sponsored by the Musicology Lecture Series (School of Music).