*Open to inquries from prospective applicants to the USC ASE Ph.D. Program*
Aydin Quach (he/they) is a scholar and artist specializing in Asian/American Studies, Performance Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Transpacific Studies.
Aydin’s core research question is concerned with the nature in which Asian/Americans attune to the sounds and experiences of nightlife, and how these are informed by partying abroad and in other places and the politics of fun as a research method and approach. They are interested in how Asian/Americans have considered EDM a distinct “Asian/American sound” as an attunement...
My research deals primarily with the queer transpacific, with a particular focus on nightlife, and sound studies/ethnomusicology. This work is guided by pleasurable objects of analysis (music festivals, fetish wear, sex[uality], video games, karaoke) and their illustration of queer Asian or “Gaysian” lifeworlds/soundscapes in diaspora across the Pacific Rim.
Asian North American Studies, Asian American Studies, Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, East Asia, Transpacific, Music, Sound, Voice, Popular Culture, Youth, Culture, Electronic Dance Music, Sexuality, Sex, Fetish, Queer, Disability, Festivity, Affect, Ethnography, Ethnomusicology, Play, Immersion, Performance, Listening, Video Games, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies
Asian/American Studies, Sensory Studies, Performance Theory, Transpacific Studies
