Wong, Cynthia

(BM in Piano Performance with Departmental Honors, magna cum laude, from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 1990; MM in Musicology, with emphasis in ethnomusicology, from Florida State University 1993 with a thesis titled “The East is Red: Musicians and Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-76;” MM Education in Arts Administration from Florida State University 1993; MPhil in Ethnomusicology from Columbia 1998) is finishing her dissertation on “'Rock and Roll on the New Long March': Rock, Commerce, and Identity in Late 20th Century China”. Academic teaching experience includes serving as director of the Chinese Music Ensemble and teaching the World Music Cultures course at FSU; and as instructor for the Music Humanities course at Columbia, with previous experience as a TA. She was a senior editor for Current Musicology and record review editor for the Yearbook for Traditional Music. She has presented papers at many conferences. Her article "Snapshots: China's Rock Pioneers--Ten Years Later" appears in the Garland Encyclopedia of Music's East Asia volume. Dr. Wong's dissertation, sponsored by Prof. Fox, is an ethnography of the rock scene in Beijing, China. It will be available on ProQuest in the early Fall of 2005.