Publications

Writings

Ying-Hsien Chen, Siboné Oroza, Elina Seye & Marjo Smolander: “Musicianship and Music Scholarship in Dialogue.” Musiikin suunta 2/2023.

Elina Seye & Marjo Smolander: “Sharing Music as Work: A Dialogue on Transcultural Collaborations.” Musiikin suunta 2/2023.

Ying-Hsien Chen: “Lectio Praecursoria: Plucking the Forest Sound – The Transculturation of the Finnish Kantele in Japan.” Musiikin suunta 2/2023.

Chen Ying-Hsien: Plucking the Forest Sound: the Transculturation of the Finnish Kantele in Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation. Doctoral Programme in History and Cultural Heritage.] Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2023.

Siboné Oroza: “When I’m on Stage, I Rule”: Cholita Futurism in Cochabamba, Bolivia. [Doctoral Dissertation. Doctoral Programme in Gender, Culture and Society.] Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2023.

Chen Ying-Hsien: “Plucking a Liberal Sound: Japanese Women’s Resignification of Finnish Kantele in a Hobbyist Club.” Women’s Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances, ed by Iva Nenić & Linda Cimardi. Music and Sound Culture, vol. 63. Bielefeld: transcript, 2023. Pp. 53–66.

Seye, Elina: “Etnomusikologisia näkökulmia musiikintutkimuksen dekolonisaatioon [Ethnomusicological perspectives to the decolonization of music studies].” Etnomusikologian vuosikirja 34 (2022): 13–40.

Chen Ying-Hsien: “芬蘭樂器,日本重製 [The remaking of a Finnish instrument in Japan].” 人類學視界 / AnthroVisions 29 (12/2021): 57–63.

Music

Eve Crazy & Mar Yo: Trilogy: Violences, SP-Party, Lu ñu gëm (compositions: Marjo Smolander; lyrics: Awa Sané & Marjo Smolander; arrangements: Marjo Smolander & Awa Sané), November 2021, Spotify and YouTube.

A Fo! feat. Junglelyd: Wanuza, October 2021, Spotify.

Eve Crazy & Mar Yo: Jigéen ñi (composition: Marjo Smolander; lyrics: Eve Crazy & Marjo Smolander; arrangement: Marjo Smolander, Eve Crazy & Papouné), single release, April 2021, Spotify and YouTube.

Others

Siboné Oroza & Antti Nordin: “When I’m on Stage, I Rule” [documentary film, 90 min.]. Premiere 20 April 2022 in Helsinki.

In the media

Ying-Chien Chen talks about the Kantele in Japan in the DongXiNanPei radio program “Culture beyond Time and Space” (4 Apr 2022)

Ying-Hsien Chen talks about Japanese kantele players in Helsingin Sanomat: “Japanissa toimii yhtyeitä kuten Salmiakki ja Rauma, jotka soittavat suomalaista musiikkia – Moni japanilainen pitää kanteletta jopa parantavana” (Eveliina Mäntylä 15 Mar 2022)

Elina Seye comments on #punkstoo discussion in July 2021 (in Finnish and Swedish):