International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

ICTM MEA 7th Symposium Programme

ICTM Musics of East Asia Study Group

7th Symposium

13-15 May, 2022, Online

Symposium Program

 

All Times are CST
(CST for Beijing, Singapore, Manila and Taipei; one hour earlier for Vietnam, Indonesia; one hour later for Korea and Japan; two hours later for Australia)

 

Day 1 Friday, 13 May, 2022

(Host: Alison TOKITA, Monash University)

 

8:10-8:30

OPENING CEREMONY

Worlds of welcome by Hee-sun KIM (Chair, MEA), Alison TOKITA and Shzr-Ee TAN (Co-Chairs, Program Committee), Hsin-Wen HSU (co-organizer)

 

 

8:30 -10:30 

Panel 1 Gender and Popular Music Across the Region

Chair: Alison TOKITA (Monash University)

 

8:30 Yuxin MEI (University of North Texas)

The Shining “Others”: A Case Study of Three Contemporary Female Pipa Musicians

 

9:00 Wenzhuo ZHANG (The State University of New York at Fredonia)

We are not anonymous”: Gender and Self-identity in Tan Weiwei’s December 2020 Virtual Performance

 

9:30 Sunhong KIM (University of Michigan)

"Imagining South Korea through Musical Borrowing: Suga’s Taech’wit’a in K-pop"?

 

10:00 Eden JONES (Houghton College near NY)

K-pop, BTS, and The Global Dissemination of the Contemporary Korean Voice in a period of World-Wide Pandemic

 

11:00-13:00     

Panel 2 Chinese Art Song and Diverse Expressions of Musical Modernity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Chair: Lin-Yu LIOU (Nara University of Education)

 

Organizer: Joys CHEUNG

11:00 Joys CHEUNG (National Taiwan Normal University)

Composition, Commentary and Collegiality in the Translated Modernity of Early Chinese Art Song

 

11:30 Stephen JONES (Brigham Young University)  

Proved Foundations with Pentatonic Inflections: “Longing for Home,” the First Art Song of Huang Zi and Wei Hanzhang

 

12:00 Arturo Irrisari IZQUIERDO (Hong Kong Baptist University) 

“I should have my own personality”: Identity Negotiation in Tan Xiaolin’s Art Songs

 

12:30 Discussant: Hannes JEDECK (University of Bonn)

 

13:00-14:30

LUNCH 

 

14:30-15:30

Keynote Speech

Chair: Hee-sun KIM (Kookmin University)

 

Keynote Speaker: Ying-fen WANG (National Taiwan University)

Music Industry, Asian Identities, and Trans-imperial Connectivity: Perspectives from Colonial Taiwan”

 

 

16:00 -18:00

Panel 3 South Korean Perspectives on Performing Arts of North Korea

Chair: Jocelyn CLARK (Pai Chai University)

 

Organizer: Hee-sun KIM (Kookmin University)

 

16:00 Ihn-gyo BAE (Kyungin National University of Education)

The Beginning of the Juche Era and the Direction of National Music in North Korea

 

16:30 Jini KIM (Konkuk University) 

A Study on North Korean Popular Arts in the 1970s: The Daily Routine of “Political Socialization” through Mass Dance and Mass Song

 

17:00 Hee-sun KIM (Kookmin University)

Politics of Overseas Performances of North Korea during the Cold War Period

 

17:30 Seung-hee HA (Dongguk University)

Changes in the Gender Structure of North Korean Musical Groups

 

 

18:00-19:00

Social Hour for All Participants

 

Day 2  Saturday, 14 May, 2022

(Host: Shzr Ee TAN, Royal Holloway, University of London)

 

9:00 -11:00

Panel 4 Resounding Taiwan (I): Intercultural Articulations

Chair: Shzr Ee TAN (Royal Holloway, University of London)

 

Organizer: Hsin-Wen HSU (National Taiwan Normal University)

 

9:00 Ming-yen LEE (Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts)

A Quest for Taiwan Guoyue: The Taipei Chinese Orchestra and the Articulation of Taiwanese Musical Identity

 

9:30 Chun-bin CHEN (National Taipei University of the Arts)

Highway Nine Musical Stories: Musicking of Taiwanese Indigenous People at Home and at the National Concert Hall

 

10:00 Hsin-Wen HSU (National Taiwan Normal University)

The Gospel in Motion: Hakka Hymnody and Contextualization

 

10:30 Meredith SCHWEIG (Emory University) 

The Voices of Teresa Teng: Legacy, Agency, and Multivocality

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

 

11:30 -13:30  

Panel 5 Resounding Taiwan (II): Sounds, Media, and Subjectivity

Chair: Joys CHEUNG (National Taiwan Normal University)

 

Organizer: DJ W. HATFIELD (National Taiwan University)

 

11:30 Tasaw Hsin-chun LU (Academia Sinica / National Taiwan University)

Constructing “Enchanted Golden Triangle” through Music and Dance in a Yunnan Diasporic Community in Taiwan

 

12:00 DJ W. HATFIELD (National Taiwan University)

Quoting the Ocean: Sounding Indigenous Art as a Challenge to Settler Multiculturalism

 

12:30 Wilson Yick Sau LAU (National Taiwan University)

Sounding “Southern” in the Air: Constructing Nanyō (Nanyang) on Radio Broadcast in Colonial Taiwan

 

13:00 Nancy GUY (University of California San Diego) 

Listening to Taiwan’s Musical Garbage Trucks: Hearing the Slow Violence of Environmental Degradation

 

13:30-15:00

LUNCH 

 

14:30-15:00

MEA BOARD MEETING

 

15:00-16:00

ASSEMBLY of GENERAL MEETING

 

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

 

16:30 -18:30  

Panel 6 Intermedia and Globalization

Chair: DJW. HATFIELD (National Taiwan University)

 

16:30 Simon JONES and Tim EDWARDS (University of Adelaide)

Soundscape of Wuxia Films: The Musical Choices That Define the Works of King Hu

 

17:00 Yang QIAN (Jeonbuk National University)

The Evolution and Reconstruction of the Image of Mulan in the Opera Mulan Psalm

 

17:30 Matthew WERSTLER (Northern Illinois University)

The Pursuit of Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Spatial Analysis Approach to Singing and ICH Recognition in Southwest China

 

18:00 Ling ZHAO (Changshu Institute of Technology) 

A Fiddle that Can Speak: An Investigation Based on Gux hieb in Guizhou Province

 

 

Day 3 Sunday, 15 May, 2022

(Host: Hsin Wen HSU, National Taiwan Normal University)

 

9:00 -11:00

Panel 7 Indigenous Music and Identity

Chair: Hilary FINCHUM-SUNG (Association for Asian Studies)

 

9:00 Shuo YANG (University of Pittsburgh)   

Non-oppositional Voices and Bodies: Religious Agency of Bai Women in Yunnan, Southwest China

 

9:30 Isabelle WEI (Taipei National University of the Arts)

Negotiation, Articulation and Resistance: A Case Study on Thao Person Mao Xin-Xiao and Cultural Tourism on Music and Dance during the Transwar Period (1920s-1960s).

 

10:00 Catherine INGRAM (University of Sydney) 

The ‘Bones of Songs’, Creativity, and Appropriation in Kam (Dong) Musical Culture

 

10:30 Mercedes M. DUJUNCO (Yunnan University Center for Ethnomusicology)

Chaoyu Gequ: An Unpopular Chinese Popular Music

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

 

11:30-13:30

Panel 8 Ritual Musics, Ancient and Modern

Chair: Alison TOKITA (Monash University)

 

11:30 Michiko HIRAMA (Kyoto City University of Arts) 

Court Music and Dance as a Ruling Mechanism for the Maintenance of Social Order: A

Comparative Study of Ancient Japan and China

 

12:00 Naoko TERAUCHI (Kobe University, Japan)

A Local Song or a Court Song? -- A Revival of a Saibara Song “Sakurabito” in Nagoya

 

12:30 Lijun LIN (Communication University of Zhejiang, Zhejiang Province, China)

Folk Belief and Subjectivity: An Investigation Based on Chen jinggu’s Belief and Temple Fair of Zhangshanzhai” of China

 

13:00 Iljung KIM (The University of British Columbia)  

Re/Presenting Korean Buddhist Chant: A New Hybrid Notation System

 

13:30-14:30

LUNCH  

 

14:30-16:00

Panel 9 Traditional Musics and Contemporary Practices

Chair: Naoko TERAUCHI (Kobe University)

 

14:30 Jocelyn CLARK (Pai Chai University)

The Appreciation-Inspiration-Appropriation-Expropriation-National Identity Continuum in S. Korea: When Sanjo Means “Solo”

 

15:00 Seung-hee YANG (Gayageum National Treasure, South Korea)

Transmission of Gayageum Sanjo since its Progenitor Kim Chang-jo – Analysis of the Lineage of Sanjo Works in North and South Korea 

 

15:30 Zhu LIU (The University of Adelaide)

Theory vs Practice: The Changing Temperaments of the Chinese Lute Pipa since the Ming Dynasty (1368)

 

16:00-6:30

Coffee Break

 

16:30 -18:30  

Panel 10 Intercultural Encounters

Chair: Hsin-Wen HSU (Taiwan National Normal University)

 

16:30 Ying-Hsien CHEN (University of Helsinki)  

Kantele in Japan: Reception, Borealism, and Representation

 

17:00 Francesco SERRATORE (Shanghai Conservatory of Music)

The Transnational Musical Life of the Wencheng’s Emigrants in Milan and Amsterdam

17:30 Jan CREUTZENBERG (Ewha Womans University)
Classical or Traditional? Korean-German Music Theatre Interweavings

18:00 Tsan-Huang TSAI (University of Adelaide) 

Remapping the World of Musics: The Curation of Chinese Musical Instruments at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

18:30-18:45

CLOSING CEREMONY