research My research and teaching specializations are the cultural histories of contemporary music and multimedia industries, with a focus on the Philippines and the US. My current book project Pop Convergence (under contract with Oxford University Press) examines musical flows and networks in contemporary Manila. Through a combination of archival research, musical analysis, and…

publications Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation, book collection co-edited with Nathaniel Zetter, for the Technographies series of Open Humanities Press, 2023. “Radyo Tanudan: Sonic Collectivities in a Philippine Village,” chapter for the Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, edited by Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio, Routledge, 2022. “Stepping onto the Pop Dance Floor,” American…

I’m an assistant professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. I was previously a lecturer at The New School and a postdoc fellow at Princeton. I earned my PhD at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse). Prior to grad school, I worked as a journalist and arts editor. Email: james.gabrillo@austin.utexas.edu.

journalism I previously worked as a journalist and editor for various publications, including The National, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Rogue Magazine. My writing has also been published in Rolling Stone Italia and Al Jazeera English. I’ve also produced multimedia and documentary segments for Wired and The Japan Times. I’ve reported on politics, culture, technology, and…