Ignacio Agrimbau
Discourse about performance practice among Iranian santur players and Ghanaian gjyil players.
- Email: 553479@soas.ac.uk
Department of Music, School of Arts
Research Students (MPhil, PhD) in the Music Department
Rasika Ajotikar
Feminisms in Performance: protest music and caste in Maharashtra, India
- Email: rasika_ajotikar@soas.ac.uk
Philip Alexander
Klezmer music in contemporary Berlin
- Email: 554802@soas.ac.uk
Michele Banal
Looking for value and meaning on London's multicultural dancefloors
- Email: 272675@soas.ac.uk
Hannah Bates
Tocando Tumbao: performance perspectives on Cuban pianism
- Email: 245982@soas.ac.uk
Joe Browning
Cosmopolitan natures: an ethnography of the global shakuhachi scene.
Robbie Campbell
Dyslexia, Sensory Ethnomusicology, and Chopi timbila Xylophone Music in Mozambique
- Email: r_campbell@soas.ac.uk
Lorenzo Chiarofonte
Songs for the Nats. Constructing identities and conveying meaning through hsaing waing music in Natkana Pwe Ceremonies of Central Burma
- Email: 643172@soas.ac.uk
Morgan Davies
- Email: md63@soas.ac.uk
William Rees Hofmann
The Life of Persianate Music in South Asia: Tracing The History of Hindustani Music ca. 1250 - 1600
- Email: wr_hofmann@soas.ac.uk
Taichi Imanishi
Evaluate Takemitsu Approaches for Integrating World Music's - Portable Music & Non-Portable Music
- Email: 543607@soas.ac.uk
Great Lekakul
Prachan: Music, Competition, and Conceptual Fighting in Thai Culture.
- Email: 500857@soas.ac.uk
Deirdre Morgan
Speaking in tongues: Music, identity, and representation in the international jew’s harp community
- Email: 567199@soas.ac.uk
Georgette Nummelin
Using Music to Sustain and Revitalise Ainu Language and Identity
- Email: 129513@soas.ac.uk
Christian Poske
Continuity in Change: A Restudy of Arnold Adriaan Bake’s research on the devotional and folk music and dance of Bengal 1925-1956
- Email: christian_poske@soas.ac.uk
Maria Rijo Lopes Da Cunha
Discourse and practice of Tarab music in Lebanon.
- Email: 181477@soas.ac.uk
Crispin Robinson
Technicians of the Sacred: Generating transcendence in Afro-Cuban orisha worship. An ethnography of praxis in bata drumming.
- Email: 148551@soas.ac.uk
Emily Sayers
Cognitive Aspects of North Indian Classical Music: How Children Learn to Compose and Improvise in an Oral Tradition
- Email: 643949@soas.ac.uk
Cholong Sung
The Music and Culture of the Korean Diaspora in the UK
- Email: 638689@soas.ac.uk
Vicky Tadros
Listening, Khaleeji-Style
- Email: 567108@soas.ac.uk
Clara Wenz
Arab-Jewish Musical Memories of Aleppo, Syria
- Email: 546417@soas.ac.uk
Maya Youssef
A Musical Intervention with Syrian Refugee Children at the Camps
- Email: 575865@soas.ac.uk
Recently Awarded PhDs
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- Nan Ma A Case Study of Chinese (Mainland China) Music Industries' Revenue Protection within The Digital Environment
- Manuel Jiminez Bamboo Power: Performance in Gamelan Jegog and comparisons with UK gamelan performance
- Sheng-Shih Chi The Role of Popular Music in the Negotiation of Taiwanese Identity
- Flora Henderson Contemporary composition for shakuhachi and western instruments: timbral gesturality in the analysis of cross-cultural music
- Kiku Day Remembrance of Things Past: The Archaic Shakuhachi in Contemporary Contexts
- Nicoletta Demetriou The Fones Discourse: Ideology and Practice in Greek Cypriot Folk Music
- Saida Daukeyeva Dombra Performance, Meaning and Memory among Mongolian Kazakhs
- Hyelim Kim Winds of Change: Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegum Flute Performance
- Hyun Seok Kwon Cultural Globalization and the Korean Promotion Policy for Music Based on Tradition: A Study of the Activation Plan and Its Background
- Cloris Lim Nanyin Musical Culture in Southern Fujian, China: Adaptation and Continuity
- Sara McGuinness Grupo Lokito: A practice-based investigation into contemporary links between Congolese and Cuban popular music
- Christian Mau Situating the Myoan Kyokai: A Study of Suizen and the Fuke Shakuhachi
- Moshe Morad Music as a ‘Space’ of Identity, Interaction and Escapism, among Gay Men in Special-period Havana
- Min Yen Ong Kunqu in 21st Century China - Musical Change and Amateur Practices
- Sung-Hee Park Patronage and Creativity in Seoul: The Late 18th to late 19th Century Urban Middle Class and Its Vocal Music
- Jutamas Poprasit The role of music in the Thai funeral ritual in contemporary Bangkok: its history, performance and transmission
- Sabina Rakcheyeva Music as Cultural Diplomacy: A Personal Journey Using Improvisation as a Creative Tool
- Jung Rock Seo Ancient Korean and Japanese Court Dance: Historical Relationship and Transmission: Case of Ch'oyongmu and Nasori
- William Sumits The evolution of the maqam tradition in Central Asia: from the theory of 12 maqam to the practice of shashmaqam
- Shzr Ee Tan Ecosystems of Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan
- Ilana Webster-Kogen The Azmari Paradox: Ethnicity, Identity, and Migration in Ethiopian-Israeli Music
- Chloe Zadeh Analysing Thumri.
- Sun Zhuo The Chinese Zheng Zither: 20th - 21st Century Transformations