Musicians’ Responses

Abstract

This chapter is a compilation of the response pieces by musicians from Chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Each piece corresponds to a particular chapter and they are arranged in a similar order. Hence, Tan Qing Lun’s piece, which corresponds to Chap. 2 about the Singapore sound, comes first, and other responses follow. We invited specific musicians to respond, based on several factors: (i) who we thought could contribute to a deeper understanding of the issues brought up in our chapters, and (ii) practicalities such as who was able and keen to take time out of their busy schedule to read a chapter and write a response piece in English within the constraints of our timeline. The idea behind this chapter is to allow the musicians to share their viewpoints directly with the readers. We sought to include the voices of musicians in order to mitigate some of the dilemmas related to the power dynamics between researcher and research “subjects”, and to give a sense of the heterogeneity and multiplicity of interpretations and opinions surrounding the themes we discuss.