Biography:
Tse, Wing Sze Dorothy is a Hong Kong-raised ethnomusicologist and graduate student in the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University. Dorothy’s research interests include medical and cognitive ethnomusicology. She explores connections between music and health, with an emphasis on musical affect and personalized and culturalized thanatology. She uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines ethnomusicology with music cognition theories and methods. Tse’s two current research projects focus on developing a research framework for studying the traditional Chinese music-medical Five Tone Music philosophy, and evaluating the benefits and concerns of AI recreation of a deceased voice for grief recovery purposes.
Title : Reflections on current perceptions of the five-element musical-affective philosophy: A call to re-evaluate the essence of the human body and colonialism in research methodology