Dr Ghulam Ali Shair is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. A practising Bansuri (bamboo flute) player, he combines ethnography with creative practice to examine intersections of race, sound and the creative industries in diasporic and global contexts. His current project explores how the modality of sound mediates belonging and survival among British Pakistani communities in the diverse city of Birmingham. His work has appeared in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Singing Survival: Nation-Making and the Cultural Politics of Classical Music in Pakistan.