Editorial Team

Editor
James Mitchell, Australia
James Leonard Mitchell completed his PhD from Macquarie University in 2012 before becoming Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Khon Kaen University in Thailand and later Online Professor of Ethnomusicology at Missional University in the USA. He has written extensively on popular and hybrid music in Thailand and Southeast Asia. In 2016 he took part in Professor Reinhard Strohm’s Balzan Musicology Project Towards a global history of music and in 2020 he received an Endangered Archives grant from the British Library to digitise early Thai gramophone records. His most recent publications are Music and Recording in King Chulalongkorn’s Bangkok (2022) published by Silkworm Books and a book chapter in Phonographic Modernity: The Gramophone Industry and Music Genres in East and Southeast Asia (2024) published by University of Illinois Press. He currently resides in Sydney Australia with his wife and four children.

Editorial Board
Katelyn Barney, University of Queensland, Australia
Dan Bendrups, La Trobe University, Australia
Denis Crowdy, Macquarie University, Australia
Steven Feld, United States
Christine Feldman-Barrett, Griffith University, Australia
April Henderson, Victoria University, New Zealand
Catherine Hoad, Massey University, New Zealand
Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia
Bruce Johnson, University of Turku, Finland and Macquarie University, Australia
Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand
Jade O'Regan, University of Sydney, Australia
Megan Rogerson-Berry, Wintec, New Zealand
Catherine Strong, RMIT University, Australia
Tim Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Kirsten Zemke, University of Auckland, New Zealand