Mark Feng
Hsiang-Yu Mark Feng is a Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology. He
holds a Master’s degree in musicology from Taipei National
University of the Arts, Institute of Musicology. His master
thesis, “The Persistence and Adaption of Hakka Mountain Songs:
Hakka Blues of Sangoudahousheng,” studies the transformation of
traditional music under Taiwan’s postcolonial tendency after the
1990s. Mark also published in Formosan Journal of Music
Research in 2019; this paper tackles a methodological
paradox in current methods of analyzing Hakka popular music. Mark
positions himself as an activist in Taiwan’s politics, and his
experience of working in various NGOs inspires his love of
ethnomusicology. He is also a music journalist who writes about
the performance of indie music. His research interests include
music in protest and social movement, phenomenology, the
embodiment of race, decolonization, ethnography of digital
culture, East Asian ethnomusicology, and music analysis.