Joanna Funk

I wrote my first blog SabahSongs from 2009-12. It was about people working in the field of music in Sabah, on the island of Borneo, where I was living at the time. When I said I was moving to Australia, readers of the blog asked me to turn it into a book. Eight manic weeks […]

Video and transcripts of the speeches at the book launch of SabahSongs: Contemporary Music in Sabah, at the Jesselton Hotel, Kota Kinabalu on December 20, 2012. Speech by Datuk CL Chan (the publisher) First of all I would like to thank YB Datuk Masidi Manjun for taking his very precious time to be here with […]

Here is some media coverage about the book launch of SabahSongs: Contemporary Music in Sabah. Most of it is out of Malaysia, in English, Chinese and Malay, but some websites from elsewhere took the story from newsfeeds. Click on them to enlarge. English Chinese Malay

With less than a week to go to the book launch, we are down to press packs and other publicity. Two days after the launch, we move to Brisbane, Australia. I’m now writing in my new blog, for thIs Australian phase of my life. Writing the music blog SabahSongs for the last three years was […]

I will courier fifty books from Taiwan to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia to fit in a book launch before we move. The books will arrive December 18th 2012. The book launch is Dec 20th. Miles and I fly at 6.00 am Dec 22 to Brisbane. Tight or what? So how does it feel to see […]

In my first blog SabahSongs I wrote about musicians and other people working in the music industry in Sabah. The blog became a book, and it will be launched in a few weeks’ time. Here’s a post about it. I’m about to leave Sabah to move to Brisbane, Australia. I’m hoping a few people in Sabah will pick up where I left off, and take SabahSongs in a new direction.