Global Musical Modernisms – edited by Gavin S.K. Lee

Global Musical Modernisms is a forum for all forms of music received and appropriated as “modern” in any location around the globe, crossing the boundaries of post/tonality and musical genres. The focus is on art, avant-garde, experimental, modernist, and popular music, by global (African, Middle Eastern, Central/ South/ Southeast/ East Asian, Latin American, Australasian etc.) music-makers, minority music-makers from the West, and music-makers from the peripheries of Europe and North America. This article contains more on the history of the term “global musical modernisms.”

Authors in each annual collection serve as peer editors for each other, shaping each post into an accessible piece of writing (with analytical graphs where appropriate) that is a scholarly guide to global musical modernisms and a multi-media teaching resource.

Editor: Gavin S. K. Lee is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium and Elizabeth Wood fellow at University of Adelaide, who specializes in Sinophone, global, and LGBTQ+ music history. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at Western Sydney University (2022-3) and taught at Soochow University, China for 9 years. In addition to serving as editor of the International Musicological Society’s publication Musicological Brainfood, he was appointed as a member of Indiana Theory Review’s editorial board, Society for Ethnomusicology Council, and Society for Ethnomusicology 2023 conference program committee. Lee has presented guest lectures in the US, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, including a keynote for the Musicological Society of Australia 2023 conference. He is the editor of Queer Ear (OUP, SMT award), Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music (Routledge), and the special journal issues “Global Musical Modernisms” (TCM) and “Global Music History Course Design” (JMHP). Lee has collaborated with around 200 researchers in editing publications and convening 31 conference panels.