Sheryl Chow
Brent Ferguson
Thomas Irvine
Gavin Lee (respondent)
Jungmin Mina Lee
Yawen Ludden
Noriko Manabe
Brooke McCorkle
Dani Osterman
Hye Jung Park
In recent years, research on music and East Asia has achieved critical mass within AMS. Extending beyond the exotic representation of East Asia within European and American music, this body of work draws on an eclectic array of primary resources and methodologies. This panel unites a new generation of researchers who deal with corpuses of texts, images, musics, and sounds flowing in and out of East Asia. The presenters have deep knowledge of East Asian languages and cultures and examine multiple Western and non-Western musical genres. We aim to provide a comprehensive survey of methodologies, areas of study, and interdisciplinary formations that currently inform global East Asian music research.
Brent Ferguson
Thomas Irvine
Gavin Lee (respondent)
Jungmin Mina Lee
Yawen Ludden
Noriko Manabe
Brooke McCorkle
Dani Osterman
Hye Jung Park
In recent years, research on music and East Asia has achieved critical mass within AMS. Extending beyond the exotic representation of East Asia within European and American music, this body of work draws on an eclectic array of primary resources and methodologies. This panel unites a new generation of researchers who deal with corpuses of texts, images, musics, and sounds flowing in and out of East Asia. The presenters have deep knowledge of East Asian languages and cultures and examine multiple Western and non-Western musical genres. We aim to provide a comprehensive survey of methodologies, areas of study, and interdisciplinary formations that currently inform global East Asian music research.
While ethnomusicology has long been the disciplinary home of East Asian music research, this panel consolidates an emerging framework that complements the ethnographic study of folk music and departs from it. In recent decades, AMS has witnessed an emerging global consciousness, as evidenced both in peer-reviewed panels (2017 panel on “Western Music and China: A Chapter in Global Music History”), and non-peer reviewed panels specially organized by the AMS leadership (e.g. 2011 panel on “Teaching Western Music in China Today”). Building on that momentum, we present papers that have a close affinity with research directions broadly recognized as _musicological_ in orientation. Our papers are anchored in history, music analysis, and visual studies, and we address avant-garde, Western, and hybrid music. We are comprised of senior scholars in the field such as Thomas Irvine (co-chair) and Noriko Manabe, as well as emerging scholars such as Jungmin Mina Lee (co-chair) and Gavin Lee (respondent).
Our papers are organized around the following research clusters. 1) The impact and contestation of Western music as discerned in the emergence of new hybrid genres in Korea (Hye-Jung Park), the Korean avant-garde (Jungmin Mina Lee), and the development of musical institutions of Western art music in Japan (Brooke McCorkle). 2) “Global intellectual history” (Thomas Irvine, drawing on Moyn and Sartory’s concept), historiography of music in China (Gavin Lee), and history of music theory in China (Sheryl Chow). 3) Theory and analysis of Chinese traditional music (Yawen Ludden). 4) Visual culture of Japan (Matthew Richardson), and multimedia studies of film, anime, and video games (Brent Ferguson, Dani Osterman). 5) Transnational popular music (Noriko Manabe).
A distinctive feature of this panel is that presenters, who are often individually experts in one East Asian country, will collaborate on the crafting of position papers, with the aim of articulating connections between multiple East Asian countries within each presentation. In this way, we model collaborative research within a transnational framework. Eleven presenters will speak for ten minutes each in this three-hour evening panel, leaving over an hour for general floor discussion. The concluding goal of this panel is the formation of a Global East Asian Music Research study group within AMS.
