Dissertation

Steer the Sound: Organizing, Governing, and Practicing Music Creativity in China.

  • Funded by American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  • Honorable Mention, Geoffrey Tootell Mathematical Sociology Outstanding Dissertation-in-Progress Award, American Sociological Association

Peer-Reviewed Article

Nie, Ke. 2023. “Bowing to Five Pecks of Rice: How Online Monetization Programs Shape Artistic Novelty.” Chinese Sociological Review 55:1, 66-95. [Abstract] [Full article (OA)]

Nie, Ke. 2022. “Inaccurate Prediction or Genre Evolution? Rethinking Genre Classification.” Proceedings of the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 329-336. [Abstract] [Full article (OA)]

Nie, Ke. 2021. “Disperse and Preserve the Perverse: Computing How Hip-Hop Censorship Changed Music Genres in China.” Poetics 88:101590. Featured in Special Issue: Measure Mohr Culture, edited by Clayton Childress and Craig Rawlings. [Abstract] [Full article (OA)].

Work in Progress

Nie, Ke, and Thomas Medvetz. A sociological study of politics and artistic autonomy in 1960s China. (Preparing for submission) [Request]

Nie, Ke. “How cultural consumption works as strategy of compensating for cultural capital.” (Preparing for submission) [Request]