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Chuen-Fung Wong is an
Assistant Professor of Music at Macalester
College, where he
teaches ethnomusicology and world music. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from
the University of California, Los Angeles,
and he holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the Chinese
University of Hong
Kong. His scholarly efforts have focused on the music of
Central Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East,
attending to issues of musical modernization, minority identification, and
cosmopolitan belongings. He has conducted ethnographic research on traditional
and popular music of the Uyghur, Central Asian Turkic-speaking Muslims who live
for the most part in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. In
addition to Central Asian music, Wong maintains a strong scholarly interest
in various Chinese traditions, particularly the seven-string zither ch’in (or qin),
of which he is a performer. Courses he has taught at Macalester
College include World Music,
Introduction to Ethnomusicology, Music of Central Asia and the Middle East, Western Music of the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries, and Music Appreciation.
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