Colloquium: Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit (Washington University in Saint Louis): "Tuning to Colonial Approval: Anxieties for Musical Knowledge Production in Siam"

The presentation is titled: “Tuning to Colonial Approval: Anxieties for Musical Knowledge Production in Siam.” Dr. Wangpaiboonkit’s research focuses on music, race, and imperialism in nineteenth-century Siam. He is interested in issues of aesthetic commensurability in colonial encounter, comparativism and the production of knowledge about non-European musics, and opera as a racializing global-colonial form. His book project, Race and Sovereignty...