Staff profile
Dr Samuel Horlor
Teaching Fellow in Ethnomusicology

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Teaching Fellow in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music |
Biography
Samuel Horlor is a Teaching Fellow in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, Durham University.
Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Ethnomusicology, Yunnan University (China), he is an ethnomusicologist and scholar of Chinese popular music interested in audiency, street music, and music's embeddedness in everyday urban life.
Samuel holds degrees from the University of Southampton (BA Music 2007) and Durham University (MA Ethnomusicology 2012 and PhD 2017). His doctoral work focused on public-space music-making in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and he was subsequently an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research.
He is the author of Chinese Street Music: Complicating Musical Community (Cambridge University Press), and co-editor (with James Williams) of Musical Spaces: Place, Performance, and Power (Jenny Stanford Publishing).
See Samuel's ResearchGate profile.
Research interests
- Ethnomusicology
- Popular music studies
- Chinese music
- Street music
- Music in everyday life
- Audiency
Publications
Authored book
Book review
Chapter in book
Conference Paper
- Horlor, Samuel & Amaro, Tat (2021), Money, Music, and Interpersonal Meanings: Researching Economic Exchange in Local Musicking in China and Thailand, in Hughes, David W., Intajamornrak, Chommanad, Rungruang, Apichai & Padgate, Usa eds, Moving from Disruption to Resilience: The Dynamics of Humanities and Social Sciences. Naresuan University, Thailand, 175-188.
Edited book
Edited Journal
- Horlor, Samuel & Williams, James (2018). Geography, Music, Space. Musicology Research, (4).
Journal Article
- Horlor, Samuel (2022). Audiencing in China: Foreign Rock Musicians’ Perceptions of Difference and Sameness. Popular Music and Society 45(5): 584-599.
- Horlor, Samuel (2019). Neutralizing Temporary Inequities in Moral Status: Chinese Street Singers and the Gift Economy. Asian Music 50(2): 3-32.
- Horlor, Samuel (2019). Popular Song Afterlives: Oral Transmission and Mundane Creativity in Street Performances of Chinese Pop Classics. Journal of World Popular Music 6(1): 10-31.
- Horlor, Samuel (2019). Permeable Frames: Intersections of the Performance, the Everyday, and the Ethical in Chinese Street Singing. Ethnomusicology Forum 28(1): 3-25.
- Horlor, Samuel (2019). Chinese Street Pop and Performing with the Urban Environment. Sound Ethnographies 2(1): 39-68.