Lions and instruments at the South Dunedin Street Festival 2025

https://ehive.com/collections/3278/objects/1339182/musical-instrument-drum-chinese-tom-tom (photo by Henry Johnson, 2021). From Te Hikoi Museum Name/Title Musical instrument, Drum, Chinese tom tom About this object A Chinese tack head, tom tom drum. We were fortunate to have Professor Henry Johnson from the University of Otago, Department of Music, inspect this drum on 8 October 2021 as part of his research […]

Johnson, Henry. 2024. Chinese, Cultural Celebration, and the Monster Procession at Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration in Greymouth, New Zealand, in 1897. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 26 (1): 5–22 [ISSN 1174-8925]  

Ersha Island 二沙岛. “Auckland-based duo Ersha Island 二沙岛 is made up of two Chinese-Kiwi singer- songwriters who craft music that reflects their biracial upbringings. Having chalked up early achievements in Classical Performance at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, sisters Dani 丹丹 and Tee 婷婷 now create mesmerising and memorable soul-pop compositions featuring their […]

Conference presentation

A few slit drums for sale in Wellington (May 2022).

Talking about the history of Chinese music in Aotearoa New Zealand at the 17th Crossover Dialogues International Conference on Performing Arts Studies, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan.

Now published: Johnson, Henry. 2022. Chee Kung Tong and Diasporic Sound in New Zealand: The Wellington Chinese Masonic Society’s Collection of Musical Instruments. The Galpin Society Journal 75: 157–173; 192 [ISSN: 0072-0127]