Russell Skelchy is the associate editor at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) responsible for literature on the music of Southeast Asia. His research interests include imperialism, music of Southeast Asia, decolonization, and sensory studies. His publications have appeared in Ethnomusicology, Sound Studies, South East Asia Research, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Action, and Criticism and Theory for Music Education (ACT). He also has co-edited the volume Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).