Adam Kielman is assistant professor of music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Sonic Mobilities is elegantly written and informative. Kielman has produced a thorough and well-written analysis of the production of worlds through cosmopolitan musicking in Southern China. Kielman's extensive experience, first as a musician and then later as an ethnographer, affords him a truly deep understanding of the issues that impact the musical lives of those he encounters and the rich theoretical potential gained through performance in every sense of the word. -- Jennifer Matsue Adam Kielman's manuscript focuses on the life, condition, practice, experience, and culture created by music bands in Guangzhou. It is a valuable piece of original scholarship that fills in the gap of knowledge in this particular music epoch in China. -- Anthony Fung