Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Msuic & Culture: Chinese-Western Musical Exchange from the 16th-20th Centuries
A symnposium featuring the exchange of Chinese and Western music from the 16th-20th centuries.
When:
May 9, 2008 12:00am to May 9, 2009 12:00am
Where
Conference Schedule
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast & Registration, Room Harney 232
9:30 - 9:40 a.m. Welcome
Xiaoxin Wu, USF Ricci Institute
Melissa Dale, USF Ricci Institute
9:40 - 11:00 a.m. SESSION I: Celestial Harmonies
Joyce Lindorff, Temple University
Matteo Ricci’s Eight Songs for a Western Keyboard Instrument
David Francis Urrows, Hong Kong Baptist University
The Pipe Organ and the Jesuits in China: A Brief Survey
11:00 - 11:20 a.m. Break
11:20 - 1:00 p.m. SESSION II: Music in Cosmopolitan Shanghai
Hon-Lun Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University
The Shanghai Conservatory, Chinese Musical Life and the Russian Diaspora,
1928-1949
Jeremy Leong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Erwin Felber: A Jewish Music Scholar in Republic Shanghai
Chun Zen Huang, National Taiwan Normal University
Operatic Activity in the Shanghai Settlement: Reflections from Chinese Society
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:40 p.m. SESSION III: Modern and Contemporary Musical Exchange
Adam Cathcart, Pacific Lutheran University
Musical Diplomacy in the Opening of China, 1971-1973
S. Andrew Granade, UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
Forging a New Ritual: China’s Aesthetic Influence on Harry Partch
Yen-Ting Chao, National Taiwan University
The Construction of Native Identity through Jazz in Taiwan
4:00– 5:00 p.m. Tour of the Ricci Institute and Reception
Cost:
Registration required, $30; USF faculty, staff, & students, Free
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
415 422-6401
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