“Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore” Book Discussion

NUS Press and the Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), Malaysia are pleased to invite you to a discussion of “Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore”. Assoc Prof Steve Ferzacca, author, will discuss his book with Dr Adil Johan, Research Fellow at KITA, Prof Jane Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College, and Dr Liew Kai Khiun, independent scholar.

Join the discussion by posting your questions in the comments on Facebook and YouTube, and the panelists will respond to them during the Q&A session.

Date: 9th July, Friday
Time: 12:00pm SGT
Venue: NUS Press Facebook and YouTube page, KITA Facebook page
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About the book: Based on five years of deep participatory experience, “Sonic City” is a sonic ethnography that is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore.

About the panelists:

Steve Ferzacca is a cultural anthropologist interested in exploring the sonics involved in everyday life. He is associate professor at the University of Lethbridge, Canada.

Adil Johan is Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), The National University of Malaysia. In researching popular music and media in the Malay world, he has published two books including “Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era” (NUS Press, 2018).

Jane M. Jacobs is Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. Her research is in the field of urban cultures, postcolonial urbanisms, architecture in society, qualitative urban methods, and urban comparativism. She has published widely including her books “Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City” (1996), “Uncanny Australia” (1988), “Cities of Difference” (1998) and “Buildings Must Die” (2014).

Liew Kai Khiun is an independent scholar and part-time lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is interested in the fields of history, cultural studies, and Singapore studies, and published “Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia” (2016).