Musical Spaces Place, Performance, and Power

James Williams is an ethnomusicologist and senior lecturer at the University of Derby, UK. His PhD, from the University of Wolverhampton, UK (2016), focused on the collaborative and creative interactions between professional musicians, while his current research concerns behavioural, socio-cultural, and creative processes in wellbeing and education.

Samuel Horlor is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ethnomusicology, Yunnan University, China. He specialises in research on street performance, Chinese pop, and music in urban life. Samuel is the author of Chinese Street Music: Complicating Musical Community (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and articles in journals including Ethnomusicology Forum and Asian Music.