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Deborah Wong is a longtime fan of [[Great Leap]]. She is an ethnomusicologist and teaches at the University of California, Riverside and has been known to play taiko. She served as a presenter for  
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Deborah Wong is a longtime fan of [[Great Leap]]. She is an ethnomusicologist and teaches at the University of California, Riverside. She was a member of the Taiko Center of Los Angeles from 1997-2009 and is the faculty adviser for Senryu Taiko at UCR. She served as a presenter for  
[[Nobuko Miyamoto]] and [[FandangObon]] at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
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[[Nobuko Miyamoto]] and [[FandangObon]] at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Her book, ''Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music'' (Routledge, 2004) offers critical reflections on how and why Asian Americans make music and choose to listen to certain kinds of music.
  
 
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* [http://music.ucr.edu/faculty/wong/ Academic profile]
 
* [http://music.ucr.edu/faculty/wong/ Academic profile]
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* [https://www.amazon.com/Speak-Louder-Asian-Americans-Making/dp/0415970407/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=]

Revision as of 12:27, 6 August 2017

Deborah Wong is a longtime fan of Great Leap. She is an ethnomusicologist and teaches at the University of California, Riverside. She was a member of the Taiko Center of Los Angeles from 1997-2009 and is the faculty adviser for Senryu Taiko at UCR. She served as a presenter for Nobuko Miyamoto and FandangObon at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Her book, Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music (Routledge, 2004) offers critical reflections on how and why Asian Americans make music and choose to listen to certain kinds of music.

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