Rate My Professor Alexander Cannon

His key publications include the monograph Seeding the Tradition: Musical Creativity in Southern Vietnam (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), which received the 2023 Royal Musical Association/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Monograph Book Prize. Other significant works are Awakening the Soul with the Left Hand: Narration and Healing in Vietnam’s Diasporic Traditional Music (Ethnomusicology, 2021), Outing the Methodological No-No: Translating Queer Space to Field Space (in Queering the Field, Oxford University Press, 2019), Tradition, Still Remains: Sustainability through Ruin in Vietnamese Music for Diversion (Ethnomusicology Forum, 2016), and From Nameless to Nomenclature: Creating Music Genre in Southern Vietnam (Asian Music, 2016). Cannon has held prominent roles such as Co-Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board of Ethnomusicology Forum (2020–2023), Book Reviews Editor for the Yearbook for Traditional Music, Secretary of the Society for Asian Music Board, and Member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Executive Committee. His scholarship supports UN Sustainable Development Goals including decent work, reduced inequalities, climate action, and peace. He supervises PhD students in his research areas.