Connie Lim Keh Nie is a Senior Lecturer in the Music Programme, Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. She completed her PhD in 2019 with a thesis entitled ‘Alternative modernities in the history of Iban popular music from 1950s to 1970s’. In addition to popular music, her research also looks at Lun Bawang traditional music. She is the main author of Sape, alat muzik tradisional Sarawak (Sape, a traditional musical instrument of Sarawak, 2016). In 2017 she was appointed as a panel member for the Intangible Culture Heritage (Performing Arts) committee under the Department of National Heritage, Malaysia.

Senior Lecturer, Music Program, Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts.

Involved in 7 Research Projects since 2008

12 Publications.

RM170,550 Total Grants.

Research:

• The Expression of Self-Concept and Ethnic Self-Identity Through Traditional Music and Costume of Bornean Ethnics.
• Iban Popular Music from 1950s to 1970s
• Effect of relaxing music on breastfeeding among mothers in Kuching: A quasi-experimental study
• Pembangunan, Pelaksanaan dan Penilaian Program Muzik Secara Strategik
• Najang Guru: The Arts of Traditional Healing

Publications:

• Lim, C. K. N. (2019). The Birth of Iban Popular Song in the 1960s. In D. A. Quintero, M. M. Hood, F. Prudente, L. N. Ross, C. M. Yong, & Hafzan Zanni Hamza (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (pp. 195–197). Kota Kinabalu: Department of Sabah Museum, Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Sabah. Retrieved from https://ictmusic.org/sites/default/files/documents/study groups/publications/PASEA Proceedings05_upload.pdf
•  Lim, C. K. N., Yow, C.L., Durin, A. & Chelum, A. A. (2018). Negotiating Modernity and the New Nationhood in IBAN Popular Song Lyrics in 1960s-1970s. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(14), 51–60
•  Lim, C. K. N. (2017). Negotiating Modernity in the History of Iban Popular Music. In S. B. Tan, J. Pugh-Kitingan, & D. A. Quintero (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (pp. 244–249). Penang: School of the Arts, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Retrieved from https://ictmusic.org/sites/default/files/documents/study groups/publications/PASEA Proceedings04_upload.pdf
• Lim, C. K. N. (2016). Alternative conceptions of modernity in the history of Iban popular music. Sarawak Museum Journal, LXXVI(97), 79–88.
• Lim, C. K. N., Rashidi, N. H., & Yahya, S. A. (2016). Sape: Alat Muzik Tradisional Sarawak. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka.

Consultation:

• Course Developer for LHA 321/05 Appreciation of Western Classical Music for Wawasan Open University