Mayco A. Santaella

Mayco A. Santaella is a Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean of the School of Arts at Sunway University. He studied at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa as an East-West Center Fellow researching music and dance traditions of the extended Sulu Zone and its links to the Nusantara region. He conducted research for his doctoral studies in Central Sulawesi as a Fulbright Research Fellow. His publications include Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021), Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (Under)Currents and Currencies (SUP, 2022), and Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia (Brill, 2024).