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Russell P. Skelchy
Russell P. Skelchy is the ERC Research Fellow leading the ‘Sounds of Occupation’ stream in the Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth-Century Asia (COTCA) project at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). He received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and MA in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include imperialism, decolonization, multiracial studies, popular music (sub)cultures, sound studies and gender. Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Ethnomusicology, Asian Music and the Journal of World Popular Music and he has contributed a chapter to the volume, Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017). Russell’s musical background includes playing in Indonesian keroncong, Javanese gamelan and Filipino rondalla ensembles. While living in the San Francisco Bay area, he was also active in underground rock scenes, both as a promoter and as a performer with various experimental and rock bands.