Scholars@Duke
Yun Emily Wang

Yun Emily Wang

Assistant Professor of Music
Music

Selected Publications

(Un)settling Ears

Journal Article City and Society · April 1, 2025 This short-form ethnographic sketch juxtaposes the narratives of sound, listening, and the idea of “home” from two Taiwanese “astronaut wives” who had immigrated to Toronto. Both women's daily lives were suffused with the absences of their husbands (remain ... Full text Cite

Listening Incommensurably

Journal Article Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture · December 1, 2024 This article juxtaposes two ethnographic moments from five years of fieldwork (2013–18) with a group of queer Taiwanese immigrants in Toronto, which coincided with the pivotal years during which Taiwan became recognized in Anglophone West as Asia’s ... Full text Cite

Doing Tai Chi with “American Music”

Journal Article American Music · December 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Meeting the Table Halfway

Journal Article MusiCULTURES · 2022 Link to item Cite

Sung and Spoken Puns as Queer "Home Making" in Toronto's Chinese Diaspora

Journal Article Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture · 2018 Full text Cite

Review: Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race through Musical Performance, by Grace Wang.

Book Review CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature Cite