Deborah Wong

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Deborah Anne Wong (born 1959) is an American academic, educator, and

Asian-American and Thai
music.

Early life and education

Wong was born on the

Asian-American, and multi-ethnic.[1]

Scholarship

Wong has been a professor of music at the

National Council on the Humanities by President Barack Obama in December 2015.[3]

Asian-American studies

Wong focuses on Asian-American performance and the way it intersects with the racial imagination in America. She says, "race is very much a part of our lives, America has racist structures that drive it, and looking at race when studying music is a different approach".[4] She used a $10,000 grant from the California Council for the Humanities to help fund the research for the site, www.asianamericanriverside.ucr.edu.[5] She wanted to spread the word about the little-known story of the city's lively Asian community. "Asian American Riverside" is a resource for local schools and the community. The project will help support interethnic understanding and strengthen the community in Riverside.[6]

Wong has studied taiko and is part of Satori Daiko, a performing group in Los Angeles.[4]

Selected bibliography

  • Wong, Deborah (2001). Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Ritual. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press.
    ISBN 0226905853. Wong's first book is about ritual performance and its implications for the cultural politics of Thai court music and dance in Bangkok in the late twentieth-century.[1]
  • Wong, Deborah (2004). Speak it Louder: Asian Americans Making Music. New York: Routledge.
    ISBN 0415970393. This book focuses on music and identity by looking at case studies.[1]

Wong has also published on Chinese-American and Japanese-American jazz, Asian-American hip-hop, and Southeast-Asian immigrant music.[1]

Research collectives

Wong has been a part of the oral history collective project Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Deborah Wong". Department of Music, University of California, Riverside. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. ^ "APPROVED RESOLUTIONS OF THE JANUARY 31, 2011, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS" (PDF). Smithsonian Institution. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. National Archives
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  4. ^ a b "Deborah Wong - Women Who Rock Oral History Archive". Women Who Rock. University of Washington. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  5. ^ "UC Riverside Hosts New Web Site on Asian Americans in Riverside". Newsroom. University of California, Riverside. 19 May 2006. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  6. ^ Wong, Deborah. "About Asian American Riverside". University of California, Riverside. Archived from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Women Who Rock Oral History Archive :: Deborah Wong". content.lib.washington.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
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