{"id":590,"date":"2010-05-20T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ta100people.wpengine.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2010-05-20T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:04:47","slug":"wendy-hsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wendy-hsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Hsu &#8211; Ethnomusicologist and Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlottesville, VA<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>I recently  started Dzian!, a NAKASHI (Taiwanese burlesque) band. We play a  selection of obscure and popular 1960-1970s tunes ranging from:  Taiwanese agogo, Japanese eleki&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-591\" title=\"hsu.wendy1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hsu.wendy1-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"hsu.wendy1\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hsu.wendy1-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hsu.wendy1.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>Who are you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a Taiwanese American passionate about music and social life. I work to pursue social justice through education and musical performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Virginia.  I\u2019m writing a dissertation about the Asian American experiences with  independent rock music. My work has delved into social and musical life  of bands such as The Hsu-nami, The Kominas, Carol Bui, Exit Clov, etc.  I\u2019m also a musician. I have performed actively on the experimental music  circuit as a member of the Pinko Communoids since 2006. I recently  started Dzian!, a NAKASHI (Taiwanese burlesque) surf rock band. We play a  selection of obscure and popular 1960-1970s tunes ranging from: Taiwanese agogo, Japanese eleki, Indonesian garage rock, Thai  shadow music, and Ventures hits loved by Taiwanese puppetry bands and  audiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you proud to be of Taiwanese heritage?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have learned to embrace and channel my 1.5-generation  Taiwanese American experiences as a cultural vantage point. My lived  experiences have driven me to challenge notions of ethnic essentialism  and cultural chauvinism in various areas of my work and personal life.  My strong ties to Taiwan have enabled me gain a transnational  perspective on the US and world issues, informing my scholarly pursuit in global cultural landscape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the  future of Taiwanese America look like to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I hope that Taiwanese America will exist in a peaceful relation to other U.S. ethnic minority groups, especially those of Asian descent, joining movements for social justice, particularly related to immigration reform, ethnic solidarity. Without inter-ethnic and international alliances, Taiwanese America would come to a lonely place in not just Pacific, but in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any  additional  information you would like to share? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beingwendyhsu.info\/\">http:\/\/beingwendyhsu.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-592\" title=\"hsu.wendy2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hsu.wendy2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hsu.wendy2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hsu.wendy2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hsu.wendy2.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlottesville, VA Who are you? I am a Taiwanese American passionate about music and social life. I work to pursue social justice through education and musical performance. What do you do? I am a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Virginia. I\u2019m writing a dissertation about the Asian American experiences with independent rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}