LSA Collegiate Fellow
jchsieh@umich.edu
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Stanford UniversityM.A. Columbia University
B.A. magna cum laude, Harvard College
Research Interests
- Sensory Studies
- Anthropology of the State
- Science and Technology Studies
- Environment
- Urban Studies
- East Asia
Awards
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Fellowship
- Wenner-Gren Doctoral Dissertation Fieldwork Award
- Stanford Humanities Center, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship
- University of Amsterdam, Junior Vossius Fellowship
- Fairbank Center at Harvard University, Hou Family Visiting Fellowship
Highlighted Work and Publications
Piano transductions: music, sound and noise in urban Taiwan
Jennifer Hsieh
While scholars have drawn attention to the production of space through sound, there has been less attention given to the interchange between multiple co-existing environments. This paper examines how the sounding of one place informs and produces the sounding of another by focusing on Western art music as it is multiply negotiated by urban residents in Taipei, Taiwan. Building upon Stefan Helmreich’s provocation on the transductive quality underlying immersive soundscapes, this paper looks at how various instantiations of piano playing in apartment buildings, on municipal garbage trucks and ...
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