Welcome and Keynote speech

Speaker: Yu-Yuan Huang (Research Fellow, National Museum of Taiwan History)

Title: Everyday Life and Imagination in Phonograph Records: Tshiò-Khue Comedy Records from Taiwan’s Japanese Colonial Period

Panel 1

Ho Chak Law, Suk Man Yip, Priscilla Tse, David Chu.

Sing It Again: Production, Metaphor, and Politics of Cover Songs in the Postwar Sinophone World

Individual paper session 1

Chair: Yang Shuo

1) Chen Haojie - Research on Music Performance of Jingyun Dagu

2) Jolin Jiang - Exploring the Goudiao: A Study of the Sounds, Significance and Potential for Revitalization of a Yue Bell from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (771-256 BC)

3) Chen Chen - The Memory Site: Cultural Memories, Embodiment, and Theatregoers of a Regional Xiqu Theater in Contemporary China

4) Mao Zhu - The Evolution and Reconstruction of the Image of Sumuzhe in Chinese Orchestra Work ‘Sumuzhe Fantasie’

Individual paper session 2

Chair: Xiao Mei

1) Wei Xin-Yi - The Realm of Departure: The Reproduction, Transmission, and Imagination of the National Community of the Thau People's "Hunting Song"

2) Pan Yanna - Reconstruction of Tradition and Change of "Chineseness: The cultural interpretation of new phenomena of Cantonese Opera in Singapore"

3) Yanfang Liou - To be or not to be Tibetanness: The National Ethos of Bhutan Constructed by Music and Dance

Panel 2: Christopher Molina, Colleen Schmuckal, Garrett Groesbeck, Yosihiko Tokumaru (discussant)

Analyzing Music in the 21st Century:  Exploring Vocabularies in Japanese Music

Individual paper session 3

Chair: Matt Gillan

1) Hirama Michiko - A comparative study of female performers in ancient Japanese and Chinese courts

2) Murayama Kazuko - Attempts at notation by visually impaired individuals before the introduction of Braille notation in modern Japan

3) Jimbo Natsuko - Early Education of Classical Music and Competition Culture in Postwar Japan: A Historical Perspective

Individual paper session 4

Chair: Anna Yates-Lu

1) Hee-sun Kim - Cold War and Trans-Pacific Trajectories in Asian Music: Overseas Performances of South Korean Traditional Performing Arts in 1964

2) R. Anderson Sutton - Practice and Perception in Intercultural Musical Collaborations: 21st Century Korean Musicians and their non-Korean Collaborators

3) Kumiko Uyeda - Soundings from a village in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan (Documentary film)

9:00～10:30

Individual paper session 5

Chair: Yang Yuanzheng

1) Shuo Yang - Inaudible Belief on A New Performance Platform: The Heritagization of the Guerx Sal Lad Festival of the Bai People in Southwest China

2) Sun Mei - From "Speaking" to "Singing" in the Context of Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Study on the Cultural Changes of Multi-Voice Hani Folk Songs in Honghe, Yunnan Province.

Individual paper session 6

Chair: Chun-bin Chen

1) Hui-Ping Lee - The Audio Recordings of Fumio Koizumi’s 1973 Survey of Formosan Music: A Preliminary Attempt at Musical Repatriation

2) Ying-fen Wang - Exploring Lin Shihao’s Unreleased Recordings of 1933

3) Chung, Chi-yi - Hakka Folk Songs Records and Censorship under Martial Law in Taiwan

Individual paper session 7

Chair: Liu Haina

1) Song Liuyan - A Lost Utopia: The Mainstreaming of Virtual Idols in China and Its Impact on the Cultural Identity of the Generation Z Fanbase

2) Qifang Hu - “098RADIO,” Hip-Hop Music and Okinawan Identities

11:00～13:00

Roundtable

Alexander Cannon, Shen Diau-long, Joseph Lam, Kakinuma Toshie, Yuiko Asaba, Nattapol Wisuttipat.

Global Turns of Music Study in/as/for Asia

Individual paper session 8

Chair: Hee-sun Kim

1) Arisawa Shino - Singing Across Borders: Chinese Women's Choirs in Post-war Japan

2) Liu Haina - A Study of the Chinese Mestizo Cantonese Opera Troupe in Havana.

13:00~14:30

Lunch

Poster session informal Q&A:

Seiko Suzuki, Chang Wenhan, Zhang Qiruo, Li Lin

14:30～16:30

Panel 3

Chair: Huang Wan

Huang Wan，He Mingxiao, Xue Tong, Li Yujie

Constructing Sense of Belonging and Becoming Transnational Self: Four Diasporic Performative Ethnographies in Shanghai

Individual paper session 9

Chair: Ho Chak Law

1) Ying Hsien Chen - Exploring “Healing” and the Aesthetics of Calmness in Hiroko Ara’s Kantele Music

2) Timmy Chih-Ting Chen - Inoue Umetsugu, Twist Kim, and the End of Postwar Hong Kong Song and Dance Films

3) Ching May Bo - The "Cantonization" of the Violin Since the Early Twentieth Century Against a Global Backdrop, with a Focus on the Chinese Communities in Southeast Asia

4) Ho Yu-Jie - Musicking and Place-Making in Post-War Taiwan: A Case Study of Rong-Shing Children’s Chorus Group

Individual paper session 10

Chair: Arisawa Shino

1) Hasegawa Yui - Resonating National Identity in Music: The Yagi no Kai and the Role of Min’yo in 1950s Japan

2) Terauchi Naoko - What Should Be Performed?: Shinto Rituals and Performing Arts in the Meiji Period Japan

3) Mizuki Somura - The Musical Features of Kinshi Tsuruta’s Biwa Music: A Comparative Analysis of Her Traditional Biwa Ballads and Modern Instrumental Repertoires

4) Tsai Shuzhou/Rinn Ruiko - Semantic shift of 'opera' in Asakusa opera: Acculturation and Identity Formation in Japanese Operatic Reception History

17:00～18:30

Panel 4

Sun Xiaomeng, Zhuo Shiying, Guo Junyu

Musical and Cultural Exchange between Japan and China in the 20th Century

Individual paper session 11

Chair: Naoko Terauchi

1) Sawako Ishii - Reframing the Relationship with People and Traditional Music in Japan

2) Geng Qinyi - Bridging Tradition and Modernity: The Applied Development of the Taiwan Music Institute's Collections

Individual paper session 12

Chair: Alexander Cannon

1) Wataru Miyakawa - The concept of mother chord in the works of Toshio Hosokawa

2) Xiao Han - Urban Music, Regionality and Aesthetics: Exploring the Rainbow Chamber Choir's "Divine Songs" Phenomenon

9:00～10:30

Panel 5

Chair: Yosihiko Tokumaru

Takeuchi Nao, Liou Lin-Yu, Shen Diau-long

Aesthetics in Non-radial Movements: Encounters among Japanese and Taiwanese Students and Artists in Paris in the 1950s

Individual paper session 13

Chair: Joseph Lam

1) Hsu Hsin-Wen - The Changing Sound Ecology of Ethno-Pop: Post-Globalization and Taiwanese Hakka Musicians Performing Relational Epistemology

2) Liou Sheng Jie - Mandarin Popular Songs in Singapore and Malaysia during the Mid-Twentieth Century

3) Irina Chao - Traditional Melody in Popular Songs: A Study on Sangpuy’s Composition in Puyuma, an Indigenous tribe in Taiwan

Individual paper session 14

Chair: R. Anderson Sutton

1) Jocelyn Clark - Gugak and the Law: The "Gugak Promotion" and the "Traditional Cultural Industry Promotion" Acts of 2023

2) Anna Yates-Lu - Changgeuk as a Window into Shifting Perceptions of Gender in Korean Society

3) Yoonhee Chang - Sentimental Challenges and Musical Changes of Royal Sacrificial Rite in South Korea

11:00～12:30

Panel 6

Seo Seung Im, Wang Shu-fen, Chen I-Jen

Taiwanese Musical Desire amidst Constraints: Complex and Multifaceted Conditions in Cultivating Home-grown Music Talents in Colonial Taiwan

Individual paper session 15

Chair: Yuiko Asaba

1) Feng Chenyueer - The Legacy of the World Lion Dance Festival in Malaysia

2) Guo Jingxuan - The Business of Performance: Venue Economics, Daily Operations, and Government Control in Nanjing, 1927-1937

3) Liu Yu-En - Center and Periphery - Power Dynamic Apparatuses Operated through the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

Individual paper session 16

Chair: Heung-Sing Lee

1) Liao Xiying - How “Silk and Bamboo” Music as a “Chinese Symbol”: Based on the Field Investigation and Integration Interaction of Huanglong Cave “Silk and Bamboo” Music Group

2) Yu Haixuan- From Nostalgia to Fusion-Experiment: The Music Creation Practice and Reflection of Horseradio's Urban Nomadism

3) Yan Dujiukun, Jian Yixuan, Zhou Ke - The Songs that Ferry Souls (Documentary film)

12:30~14:30

Lunch

Poster session informal Q&A:

Ziqi Lin, Wu Huiqi, Shen Jingxian, Yifan Wang

14:00～16:00

 Workshop 1

Xiao Mei, Xing Yuan, Shen Zhengguo, Tang Xiaofeng, Zhiyi Cheng Qiaoqiao.

Reviving Heritage: The Evolution of Jiangnan Silk String Instruments and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Sound

Individual paper session 17

Chair: Sheryl Chow

1) Yang Yuanzheng - Japonifying the Qin: Music and Legitimization in Tokugawa Politics 

2) Li Ziran - A Study on the Historical Records of Female Qin Players in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Areas in the Song Dynasty

3) Lee Heung Sing - A Song from North: Versions of Qin Piece Dialogue between Fisherman and Woodcutter and Its Inheritance in Hong Kong

Individual paper session 18

Chair: Ying-fen Wang

1) Chunbin Chen - Wind, Guns, and Feasts: A Taiwanese Indigenous Headhunting Chant Documented by Japanese Scholars

2) Fukuda Chie - Activities of female jiuta-sôkyoku masters in colonial Taiwan: Focusing on Funada Kiku

3) Xiaoli Zheng - Radio Music Broadcasting of Beijing Central Broadcasting Station during the Japanese-Occupied Beijing

16:30～18:30

Panel 7 

Wang Yang, Shen Xing, Sun Yan, Yu Lian

Multiple Interpretation of Chinese Opera Music in the Yangtze River Delta Area

Individual paper session 19

Chair: Liou Yan-Fang

1) Chow Ow Wei, Li Jiuchang - Enlightening ‘Sentient Beings’ in an Interreligious World: Musical and Spiritual Quests in Kanho Yakushiji’s East Asian Buddhist Music

2) Yun Zhou - An Examination of the Ming Dynasty Buddhist Mantras that Spread Eastward to Japan

3) Jean Wong - Nianfo Melodic Patterns across Space and Time

Individual paper session 20

Chair: Hsin-wen Hsu

1) Yuting Lin - “Musical Voyages along the Silk Road”(1979-1997) of the Min-On Concert Association: Romantic Imaginations, Historical Re-Connections, and International Friendship between Japan and Eurasia

2) Zhao Zhao and Jingwen Bi - Sonic Resonance and Embodiment: The Symbolism of Shamanistic Music in Inner Mongolia, China

3) Daini Liu - East Asian Soundscape in Smithsonian Folkways Recordings