Barbarian Pipes and Strings Reconsidered
Negotiating Authenticity in the Musics of China: Transcultural Perspectives
25th International CHIME Conference
October 1-4, 2023
Papers (including Performance papers)— 30 minutes TOTAL, e.g. 15/20 minute presentation/15/10minute discussion per
paper—3 papers: 90 Minutes; 4 papers: 120 minutes; DOUBLE PANEL 5 papers: 150 minutes.
Make sure that you run an IT-Test with your submitted file, BEFORE your session, in the assigned slots!
CONFERENCE VENUE: CATS (Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vossstrasse 2, 69115 Heidelberg)
PROGRAM (Program Booklet PDF Download)
October 1, 2023 SUNDAY
| 9.00-18.00 | Registration | |
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VENUE | CATS Auditorium 010.01.05 | CATS ROOM 010.00.06/01 |
8.45-9.00 | IT-TEST Sessions I and II |
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9.00-9.15 9.15-9.45 | Welcome Petra THIEL, Hanno LECHER, Frank KOUWENHOVEN Opening Reflections Barbara MITTLER Whose Music? Authenticity as Weapon |
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9.45-11.15 | I. JOINT PAPERS: AUTHORITY AND AUTHENTICITY CHAIR: Barbara MITTLEROdila SCHRÖDER: Whose Canon: A Distant Reading of Opera and Concert Hall Repertoires in Contemporary China ZHANG Enhua: Reinventing National Music: Impression Chinese Music and Rediscover Chinese Music Frank KOUWENHOVEN: Can Musical Authenticity be Maintained in an Autocratic State?—Some Reflections on Music in or from China |
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11.15-11.30 | Coffee break | |
11.30-13.00 | II. JOINT PAPERS: NEGOTIATING AUTHENTICITY IN REPUBLICAN CHINA CHAIR: Frank KOUWENHOVENQIAO Meng: Xiao Youmei's Folk Tonal Theory nurtured by Central Cultural Exchange Stephen M. JONES: Ma Sicong’s ‘Suiyuan Suite’ (内蒙组曲): A Negotiated Authenticity Benjamin FLEISCHACKER: Transcribing the Winds: Literacy, Commodification, and Nation in the Music of Republican China |
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13.00-13.30 | IT—TEST Sessions III and IV |
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13.00-14.15 | Lunch break - CATS Tour | |
14.15-15.45 | III. PERFORMANCE PAPERS: INSTRUMENTS & AUTHENTICITY CHAIR: Odila SCHRÖDERCHEN Teng: The Erhu as an Imitating Instrument: The Issue of Authenticity with Traditional Chinese Instrumental Compositions MENG Shuxin The ‘Essence’ of Ethnic Musical Cultures in Contemporary Pipa Music LI Liangzi: Dialogue of Heart and Sound: Encountering Qin Wenchen’s Utopia in his Zheng Work The Sun Shadow No. 4 |
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15.45-16.00 | Coffee break | |
16.00-18.00 | IV. JOINT PAPERS: COVERS and COPYRIGHTS CHAIR: Frederick LAUNancy Yunhwa RAO: Victor Monarch Chinese Records and the Transpacific Genealogy of Music in America Andreas STEEN: Authenticity, Audiences and Time: On the Changing Perceptions of China’s International Pop Song ‘Rose, Rose, I Love You’ (1940) LAW Ho Chak: Mūdo Enka, Cover Version, and ‘Petite Deng’ as the Antithesis of ‘Red Classics’ WANG Sixian: Rethinking Wang Luobin: The Conflict between the Dissemination of Ethnic Culture and Copyright Interests |
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18.00-19.30 | V. FILM DISCUSSION Wang Bing Man in Black (2023)—The Making of a Musical Xilin MODERATION: Barbara MITTLER |
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19.30 | Welcome Reception | |
VENUE | CATS AUDITORIUM 010.01.05 | CATS ROOMS 010.00.06, 01 and others |
from 20.30 | Evening Jam Sessions 1 |
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October 2 MONDAY
| 9.00-18.00 | Registration | |
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VENUE | CATS AUDITORIUM 010.01.05 | CATS ROOM 010.00.06/01 |
8.45-9.00 | IT - TEST Sessions VI and VII | IT - TEST Session VI |
9.00-10.00 (Vl.1) 9.00-10.30 (Vl.2) | VI. 1 JOINT PAPERS: AUTHENTICITY AND MUSICAL STRUCTURE CHAIR: Marnix WELLS YANG Kuangtze: From Instrument Symbolism to SymbolicMateriality in the Chinese Bronze Age: An Anthropological Exploration on the Ancient Literature of Pre-Qin Yayue (先秦雅 樂) 從樂器象徵意涵到中國青銅時代的象徵物質性一個先秦雅 樂理論的人類學探討 Sheryl Man-Ying CHOW: Kangxi’s Fourteen-Tone Temperament— An ‘Inauthentic’ Reconstruction of Ancient Ritual Music? | VI. 2a JOINT PAPERS: TRANSCULTURAL/POPULAR MUSIC I - HUANG Xuan: Exploring the Musical Tapestry of Everyday Life in China: Unraveling the Relationship Between Audio Features and Recognition WANG Jiaqi: From Chrysanthemums to Water Snowflake: Translating Mountain Songs and Transcultural Rhythms in South Taiwan YIP Suk-Man: From Beethoven to Hong Kong Cantopop Song: The Study of the Secondary Creations of Für Elise |
11.15-11.30 | Coffee break | |
10.45-11.45 | VI.3 JOINT PAPERS: AUTHENTICITY IN CONTEMPORARY WU Yi-Cheng (Daniel): Expanding Music Literacy: Chinese Kunqü Opera Stage-Speech Melody and its Contour Transformations in YAO Chen’s Pipa Plays Opera (2015) SU Qian: An analysis of Gao Weijie's work Nostalgia for Chinese orchestra 高为杰中国民族管弦乐作品《乡情》的分析 | VI. 2b JOINT PAPERS: TRANSCULTURAL/POPULAR MUSIC II - Elinor Shuang QIAO: Arriving in the New World—Anxiety, Boundary Crossing, and Displacement YUAN Mingqing: Who could be called a Chinese Rapper? Hip Hop Music, Race and Nationalism in China |
11.45-13.15 | VII: PERFORMANCE PAPERS: MODERN QIN SCHOOLS CLAIMING LEE Heung Sing: The Aural History of the Qin Piece Parasol Leaves in Dance with the Autumn Wind and its modern evolution Simon DEBIERRE: A Tale of Two Zithers: Arguing over Qin Musicking Orthodoxy in Modern China HOH Chung Shih: Identities and Authenticities in Guqin Music and Performance Practice |
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13.15-13.45 | IT—TEST Session VIII.1 | IT—TEST Session VIII.2 |
13.15-14.30 | Lunch break VISIT TO THE CATS Library Music Collections |
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14.30-16.00 | VIII. 1 JOINT PAPERS: MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS CHAIR: Petra THIELEnio DE SOUZA: Chinas Music and Musical Instruments in Portuguese Classical Sources Samuel CHENEY: From ‘Strangeness’ to ‘Reverence’: Musical Authenticity and the Construction of a Chinese Christian Hymnody in Late Qing China François PICARD: Musique sacrée—Shengyue jingpu 聖樂經譜 Reconsidered | VIII. 2 PANEL: Wenzhou Guci—Tradition and Transformation: CHEN Leyun: Harmony of Past and Present: Wenzhou Guci's Role in Local Lives and Daoist Rituals LIN Yayi: Words, Music and Meanings of today's Wenzhou Guci Francesco SERRATORE: The Heritagization of Wenzhou Guci and its ‘New Life’ in the Chinese Community of Milan. |
VENUE | VÖLKERKUNDEMUSEUM, Hauptstraße 235 | |
17.00-18.30 | EXHIBITION with performances by DAI Xiaolian (Guqin), CHANG Chia-ling (Liuqin), CHEN Teng (Erhu), NACHIN (Morinkhuur) |
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18.30 | Reception Völkerkundemuseum | |
VENUE | ALTE AULA, Universitätsplatz |
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19.30 | CONCERT SELTENE ERDEN—MOND und STEINE- TRACES of MEMORY - Chi-sun Lee et al. Performed by SCHOLA HEIDELBERG/ ensemble aisthesis & DENG Haiqiong (Guzheng), Lalit Kumar GANESH (Tabla), DAI Xiaolian (Guqin), CHEN Teng (Erhu) and others |
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VENUE | CATS AUDITORIUM 010.01.05 | CATS ROOM 010.00.06/01 |
from 22.15 | from Evening Jam Sessions 2 |
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October 3 TUESDAY
| 9.00-18.00 | Registration | |
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VENUE | CATS AUDITORIUM 010.01.05 | CATS ROOM 010.00.06/01 |
8.45-9.00 | IT - TEST Sessions IX & X.1 | IT - TEST Sessions IX & X.2 |
9.00-10.30 | IX.1 JOINT PAPERS: LOCAL OPERA - What does it mean to be ‘Authentic’? CHAIR: YIP Suk-ManXIA Ying: An Ethnomusicological Study of a Local Goddess’s Birthday (film screening) Bernard KLEIKAMP: Dhel Trap — Lhamo Songs (= Songs in Tibetan Opera) YU Lian ‘Cultured’ Music: The Fluid Authenticity of Yue Opera“讲究 的”音乐：越剧流动的真实性 | IX.2 JOINT PAPERS: TRANSCULTURAL MUSICKING AND DU Yongfei: Unveiling the Process of Othering: From 'Authenticity' to Stereotyping Chinese Culture in German Music Education ZHENG Xinpei: Learning Music Authentically: Perspectives of Chinese Instrument Teachers in China and the UK WANG Weida: The Western Classical Music Industry in China’s Post-Socialist Era: Cultural Significance, Economic Context, and Politics |
10.30-10.45 | Coffee break | |
10.45-11.45 | X.1 JOINT PAPERS: AUTHENTICITY IN CONTEMPORARY Hannes JEDECK: “Performance of authenticity” in the multimedia compositions “Re:member” and “Chang'e. Why you flew to the moon?” by composer ZHOU Dong Anthony Paul DE RITIS: Chineseness and Authenticity in New Music that Embraces Chinese Elements | X.2 JOINT PAPERS: COSMOPOLITAN MUSICS CHAIR: Frederick LAUMarnix WELLS: Sanskrit-based Dance in First Milennium China? HUNG Chia-Yin: Changing Ways of Imagining China in Contemporary Taiwanese Qin Music |
11.45-13.15 | XI. PANEL: Changes to ‘Traditional Chinese Musical Heritage’— ZHANG Xiaoxuan: From Collective to Individual Inheritance: the Example of Huacao xiao luogu (华漕小锣鼓) in contemporary China WU Xiaodan: Qin music and the Test of Time: Does the Concept of “School Lineages” (liupai 流派) still fit in the Modern Era? The Case of Zhang Ziqian (1899-1991) from the Guangling School CAO Yijia: From Rural Stages (caotai 草台) to Urban Theatres: The Development of Local Mu Opera (muju 睦剧) in Contemporary China |
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13.15-14.30 | Lunch Break - CATS Tour | |
14.30-16.45 | SCREENING The River in Me (98 mins).With Frank KOUWENHOVEN, Odila SCHRÖDER, Andreas STEEN and others MODERATION |
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16.45-17:00 | Coffee break | |
VENUE | ALTE AULA, Universitätsplatz |
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17.30-19.00 | ROUNDTABLE Creative Transformation—Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde and its“Covers” with WANG Ying, Stefan HAKENBERG and Members of the KlangForum Heidelberg, MODERATION: Barbara MITTLER |
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19:15 | CONCERT—INTERVENTIONS |
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| Reception Alte Universität Bel Etage | ||
VENUE | CATS AUDITORIUM 010.01.05 | CATS ROOM 010.00.06/01 |
from 22.15 | Evening Jam Sessions 3 |
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October 4 WEDNESDAY
VENUE | VÖLKERKUNDEMUSEUM, Hauptstraße 235 |
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10.00-13.00 | EXHIBITION FROM THE SILK ROAD & WORKSHOP PARADOXES: Turandot— Symbol of the Silk Road: Conceiving a transcultural puppet play with Joachim STEINHEUER and Ksenja FEDOSENKO |
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13.00-14.00 | Lunch Break—VISIT TO THE CATS Library Music Collections | |
VENUE | CATS AUDITORIUM 010.01.05 | CATS ROOM 010.00.06/01 |
13.45-14.00 | IT—TEST Session XII.1 | IT—TEST Session XII.2 |
14.00-16.00 | XII.1 JOINT PAPERS: LOCAL AUTHENTICITIES? CHAIR: Frank KOUWENHOVENFENG Jun: Local Perspectives of Authenticity in China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Context Lisa SPINELLI: Negotiating Authenticity at the Margins: Tibetan Folk Music on Stage WU Pei-Shan: What is the true Hengchun Folk Singing? The Imagination of Musical Authenticity and the Formation of Local Identity LAU Cheongkong Frederick: Authentic Traditions and Traditional Authenticity in Chinese Music | XII.2 PANEL: Reflecting Central Asian Music in Sui and Tang XU Duo: Central Asia Music Groups in Sui and Tang Court Music XIAO Yaoxuan: Culture Exchange on the Silk Roads – A Case Study of the Archaeological Remains of the Lutes ZHANG Xiaodong: The History of Pipa 琵琶 Lutes in Chinese Literary Sources LUO Zhong: Rethinking the Reconstruction of Tang Music: A Brief Look |
16.00-16.15 | Coffee break | |
16.15-18.30 | Negotiating Authenticity in the Musics of China - TRANSCULTURAL SOUNDSCAPES MODERATOR: Frank KOUWENHOVEN FINAL PUBLIC JAMMING CONCERT SESSION |
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