Frederick Lau

University of Hawai'i

Frederick Lau is an active ethnomusicologist, flutist, and conductor whose scholarly interests include a broad range of topics in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures. He has published widely on traditional Chinese music, music and politics, nationalism, music in cross-cultural context, Chinese music in the diaspora, as well as issues related to 20th & 21st century Western avant-garde music. He is author of Music in China (Oxford 2008) and co-editor of Vocal Music and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Music: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (Routledge 2012), Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Wesleyan 2004), and Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Asia and the Pacific (Uiversity of Hawaii Press, upcoming). His articles have been published in various scholarly journals.

 

Lau  is  the  former  book  review  editor  of  the  Yearbook  for  Traditional Music and editor  of  a  book  series  entitled  Music  and  Performing  Arts of  Asia and  the  Pacific, University  of  Hawaii   Press. He  is  the president of  the  Society  for  Asian  Music and  former  president  of  Music  of  East Asia  Study  Group  and  the  Association  for Chinese  Music  Research. He  is  currently  the  chair  and  professor  of  Ethnomusicology and director  of  the  Center  for  Chinese  Studies  at  the  University of  Hawaiʻi at  Mānoa.