Supplemental Information: Episode 9
"In the Days of Auld Lang Syne”: Stability and Bagpipe Music in Hong Kong (1997-2024)
Samantha Sasaki (Princeton University)
Release Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Production Credits
Team Lead: John Heilig
Production Lead: Jose Garza
Peer Reviewer: Larry Witzleben
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Maria Tartaglia
Closing Music: Yike Zhang
Other Performances: Auld Lang Syne as performed by the Hong Kong Police Band (1997), the Hong Kong Police Force (2019), and the Hong Kong Police Pipe Band (2024).
Bio: Samantha Sasaki is a second-year PhD student in Musicology at Princeton University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Music and Politics at Cornell University. Her research interests include global protest music, sound ecology, and media studies. Current projects involve research on bagpipe bands as globalized forms and sonic depictions of the alien in media. Outside of her studies, Samantha enjoys singing in the Princeton Glee Club, figure skating, and reading fantasy novels.
Keywords: Hong Kong, bagpipes, ethnomusicology, protest, Scottish folk music