Date/Time
Date(s) - 2 Dec 2016
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
701C Dodge Hall
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Sounding China in the World: A Workshop on Musical Circulations to and from China from the Qing Dynasty Through the Present
9:30am-5:00 pm, 701c Dodge Hall, Columbia University
Presenters: Adam Kielman and Qingfan Jiang (Music, Columbia); Paize Keulemans (East Asian Studies, Princeton) and Fred Lau (Music, University of Hawaii)
Session Chairs: Susan Boynton (Music) and Wei Shang (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
In this workshop, we will investigate the evolving place of China in the world and of the world in China through the important and underutilized lens of music. Examining circulations of music and their connections to processes of knowledge formation, we will consider the ways diverse musics have been transmitted, reformulated, and integrated in contexts ranging from the eighteenth century Qing court to contemporary southern China. We aim to generate productive dialogue through transhistorical perspectives across and through disciplines in order to reassess China’s central role in the formation of a globalized culture from the Enlightenment through the present.
Sponsors: Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Department of Music, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing