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http://acmr.info/ ACMR Newsletter Association for Chinese Music Research 中國音樂研究會通訊 Volume 18, number 2 October 2012 ACMR Online Membership Dues Discussion Group MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT ACMR’s online discus- Welcome to the fall 2012 ACMR newslet- to report that the officers are carefully sion group is hosted by ter. As you will see in this issue, our mem- working on developing our constitution the University of Ha- bers continue to be extremely active in the so we can soon bring it to our member- wai`i. To send messag- scholarly study of Chinese music. It is such ship for approval. I want to thank all of es to the list, please a pleasure to read about everyone’s activi- our officers for their hard and meaningful use the address acmr- ties from publications, archival work, and work for the Association; we are all fortu- [email protected]. If conferences, to field reports and reviews of nate to have such committed and talented you have any questions new works. We are indeed a productive people working for ACMR. about the list, write to group of individuals! I encourage you all to Ted Kwok at make sure your membership is current and During this Presidential season there is a [email protected]. to continue to submit news and announce- lot of talk of Wall Street and Main Street, ments so that we can all read about your but as ACMR President my job is to bring individual and collective accomplishments. attention to Bourbon Street! Please be sure to join us from 8-10PM on Thursday, st Inside this issue: The ACMR officers have likewise been busy November 1 in New Orleans for our as usual working on a number of different 2012 ACMR meeting (Sheraton Hotel’s business items for our Association. We Maurepas room). We will start the even- have had a rich exchange of discussion on a ing with research presentations and then Announcements 2 number of items this year that I will report conduct our annual business meeting. on in detail at our upcoming meeting in Winners of the 2012 Rulan Chao Pian New Orleans. I Prize for best published article and the am pleased to 2012 Barbara Barnard Smith Student Pa- People and 2-3 report that we per Prize will be announced at the meet- Places have some long- ing. Full reports of the meeting will be time members of available through the spring 2013 newslet- ACMR who are ter and/or ACMR website for those of Field Report 4-7 giving back to the you who are unable to attend. Association in generous and As always, please feel free to contact me thoughtful ways- individually if you have comments, ques- more on this in tions, or concerns about ACMR. It is an CHIME/CMA 8 Lei Ouyang Bryant the near future. I honor to serve as President of this lively Conference am also pleased association and I look forward to seeing Report some of you in New Orleans! News from 9-10 ACMR 2012 ! the Chinese Music Archive The 2012 annual ACMR conference will be a joint http://acmr.info meeting will be held meeting with American Mu- Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, sicological Society and Soci- http://www.indiana.edu/ Book Review: 10-11 8:00-10:00 pm, in New ety for Music Theory. For ~semhome/2012/ Orleans, Louisiana in con- more information, please welcome.shtml junction with the 57th visit the ACMR and SEM Meeting of the Society for websites. Events Calen- 12 Ethnomusicology. This dar Volume 18, no. 2 http://acmr.info/ Page 2 Announcements The "dues year" for ACMR starts with the meeting in New Orleans for the payment ACMR annual meeting and ends with the next of your dues. If you are not attending the year's meeting. Voting privileges, submis- meeting, please send your dues to: Membership sion for the two annual prizes, and certain forms of newsletter announcements re- Alan Kagan, ACMR treasurer quire membership. ([email protected]) 1376 Christensen Ave. The fee is $10 for students and $15 for West St. Paul, MN 55118 professionals. There will be a convenient table set up as you enter the ACMR Thank you for your membership! “Music in Death and Life: The Enactment . Papers to be ACMR 2012 will feature the following three research presentations: of the Gongde Ritual of Merit by Chinese Presented at From the Chaozhou Region of Eastern “Space and Power Negotiation in Song Guangdong, South China” by Mercedes M. Dujunco, Bard College & Shanghai ACMR 2012 Dynasty Court Ritual Music” by Kang Conservatory of Music. Ruijun, Association Professor of Musi- cology, School of Music, Central China “Rituals to Harmonize Sounds, Smells, and Normal University, Wuhan CHINA & Factions: Reviving the Bell-knife in the Visiting Scholar at University of Michigan, Song Dynasty” by Lars Christensen, Ann Arbor. University of Minnesota Student Student members of ACMR are invited student meeting, those who are interested Meeting and to a post-meeting gathering to socialize may attend the scheduled zydeco concert. and share research interests. After the Zydeco People and Places Szczepanski, Beth, The Instrumental Yu Runyang, Contemplations on Music Recent Music of Wutaishan’s Buddhist Monasteries: Aesthetics: A Collection of Articles by Yu Publications Social and Ritual Contexts (Surrey: Ashgate, Runyang (Bejing: Central Conservatory of 2012). Music Press, 2012). Thrasher, Alan and Gloria Wong. Zhang Boyu, ed. Discourse on Music: Col- Yueqi: Chinese Musical Instruments in Perfor- lected Essays of the Musicology Department, mance (Vancouver: BC Chinese Music Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing: Cen- Association, 2011). tral Conservatory of Music Press, 2010). Winzenburg, John (文盛伯). “中国音乐术 Zhang Boyu, Traditional Chinese Music in a 语及语境的英译问题” [Issues in Translating Changing Contemporary Society: A Field Re- Chinese Musical Terminology and Con- port and Music Collection of the Quantou texts into English]. Trans. 孙敬 Village Music Association, Baiyangdian Lake Region (Beijing: Central Conservatory Mu- 慧 In Journal of the Central Conservatory of sic Press, 2012). Music (中央音乐学院学报) 第三期 (总第一百 二十八期, Fall 2012) 第 37-47, 56 页. Volume 18, no. 2 http://acmr.info/ Page 3 People and Places, cont. A Critical Northeastern University, Boston Other participating scholars included: Su- hosted a one-day symposium and con- san Asai, Marc Battier, Zdravko Blazekovic, Discussion and cert on Friday, October 5, 2012, on the Kimasi Browne, Eric Charry, Alessandra current state of Chinese musicological Ciucci, Anthony De Ritis, Cynthia Tse Kim- Scholarly and ethnomusicological research, and a berlin, Emmett Price, Nancy Rao, Meredith Saturday morning (October 6) general Schweig, Kay Shelemay, Mark Slobin, Julie Exchange on discussion on "best practices" in musico- Strand, Jeff Todd Titon, and William logical research. Wakeling. Music Research The symposium was keynoted by Profes- Keynote sor Zhang Boyu, ethnomusicologist and Professor Zhang Boyu, "Research in China: between China Director of the Central Conservatory of Conflicts between East and West and Mu- Music Press; he was joined by his col- sic and Its Social Contexts". and the U.S. leagues, Yu Renhao, Yu Zhigang and Li Xin. Javanese Ningbo University is offering students More than 90 students are taking part in a unique opportunity to learn Javanese China’s first university gamelan ensemble Gamelan at Gamelan for the first time starting the under the tutelage of Mr. Sutrisno Hartana, fall semester of 2012. The univesity a veteran gamelan teacher/performer from Ningbo recently purchased a complete Javanese Java, Indonesia, who has recently been gamelan with the help of Professor appointed a faculty member of the College University Sumarsam of Wesleyan University. of Arts at Ningbo Unversity. There are currently four Gamelan sets Ningbo University’s world music program in China available for academic use, but offers performance courses in the areas of only the one at Ningbo University is traditional Chinese Music, Western classical used for a formal Gamelan curriculum. Music, Jazz, and Javanese Gamelan. Students Take Part in Ningbo University’s New Javanese Gamelan Course Volume 18, no. 2 http://acmr.info/ Page 4 Field Report: Teaching a Class on Ethnomusicological Fieldwork at the Shanghai Conservatory Mercedes Dujunco As I walked along the hallway leading to the tory was issued to me which I accepted, and a classroom where I was due to teach the grad- contract soon followed. After a refreshing two uate seminar on “Field Methods and Theory -week stint at Qingdao University doing a lib- in Ethnomusicology” in another fifteen eral arts education program initiative for Bard minutes, I quickly went over my planned out- College in early August, I arrived in Shanghai, line for today’s class in my mind for the nth settled into a studio apartment twelve time: First, a free-writing exercise for three minutes’ walk from the Conservatory, and was minutes, after which we’d go over and discuss on my way to teaching my first graduate eth- some passages from today’s assigned readings nomusicology seminar in Chinese. It was a It felt like I was that I had excerpted and typed separately as a homecoming of sorts, since I had been a for- teaching my first Word document using a large font, and finally eign student in the school for almost two on to discussion by students of the written years in the early 1980s. ever ethnomusi- assignment for today for the remainder of the cology graduate class. I also mentally went over some of the I have actually taught at the Shanghai Conserv- words in the readings and their Chinese atory before, back in 2005, but that was a seminar all over equivalents which I had needed to look up. It short stint during which I lectured on the use again.