Colin P. McGuire, PhD

Music in/as culture meets martial arts studies, with a side of DJ/producer.

Ethnomusicologist, Martial Artist, Technologist

Searching for meaning at the intersection of sound and movement.

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Current Project: Shillelagh Studies

Holistic Investigation of Stick-fighting Culture and Knowledge (HOLISTICK): Musical Decolonization of 19th-Century Irish Faction Combat Skills to Foster Healthy 21st-Century Shillelagh Walking Stick Martial Arts

Article and Video: The Most Famous Song in Kung Fu Films is an Unofficial Cantonese Anthem

July 5, 2019

Unisonance in Kung Fu Film Music, or the Wong Fei-hung Theme Song as a Cantonese Transnational Anthem. Here are text and video versions of some research I did on the idea of unofficial anthems for transnations that precede, rupture, exceed and transgress the seemingly stable territories and borders of states. My case study was a … More Article and Video: The Most Famous Song in Kung Fu Films is an Unofficial Cantonese Anthem

Shillelagh Studies

Shillelagh Studies: New Research Project on Music and Irish Martial Arts

October 24, 2018

I’m delighted to announce that I received a James M. Flaherty Scholarship from the Ireland Canada University Foundation to start a research project on music and Irish stick-fighting. I’m one week in, and the scholarship runs till the end of November. Thanks to the Department of Music at University College Cork for hosting me! The … More Shillelagh Studies: New Research Project on Music and Irish Martial Arts

"Monkey C Monkey Swing"

***featuring the Phonogarde on guitar***

My DJ/producer alter ego, Ronin E-Ville: beats and bass, samples and synths, funk and fusion, dub and dirt, jazz and juxtaposition, etc.

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