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ACMR Newsletter ACMR Newsletter http://acmr.info/ Association for Chinese Music Research ACMR Online Discussion Group ACMR’s online discus- Volume 18, number 1 May/June 2012 sion group is hosted by the University of Ha- MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT wai`i. To send messag- es to the list, please Welcome to the Spring 2012 ACMR Newsletter. you to read Helen Rees’ reflections to learn more use the address acmr- It is a great honor to serve as the new ACMR about Antoinet’s rich personal and professional life. [email protected]. If President. I want to take a moment to thank you have any questions our outgoing President Fred Lau for all of his A few announcements while I have your attention: about the list, write to hard work during his term as ACMR President. 1) I am delighted to announce the 2010 Barbara As you will read in Bell Yung’s report (page 10), Barnard Smith Student Prize for Best Student Paper Ted Kwok at ACMR has a rich history of scholars of Chinese presented at the 2010 SEM conference to Meredith [email protected]. music coming together to share research and re- Schweig (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University); see sources. This community has grown over the page 3 for details. years and we now have the increased capacity to ACMR Newsletter promote the study of Chinese music within 2) Please consider submitting nominations for the sends special thanks North America and beyond. 2011 Rulan Chao Pian Prize for Best article on to outgoing editor Chinese music, broadly defined, published in an Valerie Samson I am so pleased to see the regular biannual publi- English-language scholarly journal or edited volume for her dedication cation of the newsletter since it was resurrected within the past year; see page 19 for details. in 2008; the newsletter serves as a wonderful re- and detail during source to announce member news and report 3) We hope to see you at the 2012 ACMR meeting her time as editor! on activities of interest to our membership. We in New Orleans, more details on the meeting will are always looking for ways to better serve our appear in our fall newsletter. Also please keep a community so please feel free to email me with lookout for the call for papers for our 2012 ACMR Inside this issue: any suggestions and ideas you may have along meeting. these lines ([email protected]). ACMR Meeting 2 I hope that you enjoy this current issue of the Report and Elec- By now most have probably heard of the great ACMR newsletter and all that it has to offer. As tion Results loss in our community with the passing of our always, I would like to thank the ACMR officers friend and scholar Antoinet Schimmelpen- (past and present!) for People and Places 4 ninck. While I personally only had the great their dedicated service pleasure of meeting her once, I have followed to our organization that her work and am thankful for all of her contribu- makes the newsletter tions to our field. In particular, as a founder of and other projects pos- Member Profile: 5 CHIME and the CHIME library, her scholarly and sible. Best wishes to Tsun-Hui Hung professional work will undoubtedly serve many everyone with your more generations of Chinese music schol- summer projects what- ars. The ACMR officers wanted to be sure to ever they may be, Life and Work of 6 take a moment to acknowledge her life and whether you are the Late Antoinet work in this issue and I want to thank Helen planning fieldwork, Schimmelpenninck Rees and Meredith Schweig for their thoughtful research, writing, and/ contributions (see pages 6-9). Our loving or spending more time Lei Ouyang Bryant Bell Yung: Reflec- 10 thoughts go out to Nuria, Elias and Frank with family and friends! tions on the Early Kouwenhoven during this difficult time; for those Days of ACMR of you who did not know Antoinet I encourage Announcements 11 ACMR 2012 ! The 2012 annual ACMR meeting will be held Thursday, Nov. 1, http://acmr.info 2012, 8:00-10:00 pm, in New Orleans, Louisiana in conjunction with the 57th Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. This http://www.indiana.edu/ Upcoming Events 19 conference will be a joint meeting with American Musicological ~semhome/2012/ Society and Society for Music Theory. For more information, welcome.shtml please visit the ACMR and SEM websites. Volume 18, number 1 Page 2 Volume 18, number 1 Annual Meeting Report By Charlotte D’Evelyn The 2011 ACMR Annual Meeting took place on the evening www.acmr.info/content/prizes for more details. Please note that the of November 17th at the Sheraton Downtown Hotel in deadline for the 2011 Rulan Chao Pian Prize has been extended to July Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thirty people were in attendance. 1st (see page 19 for details). The meeting opened with paper presentations given by Ho- (2) Incoming Officers. Chak Law, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, Ann ACMR welcomed two new officers this year. Adam Kielman Arbor; Hyeok Hweon Kang, an undergraduate student at volunteered to be the incoming student representative. The Emory University; and Beth Szczepanski, a part-time lecturer membership voted in favor of a cycling rotation schedule for the at the Ohio State University. newsletter editorship and Beth Szczepanski volunteered to be the incoming newsletter editor. Valerie Samson, who rotated off this Ho-Chak Law’s paper, “Eyunge Qupu and Jicheng Qupu as year, was thanked for her remarkable work, vision, and manifestations of the declining kunqu oral transmission in the commitment to the newsletter during her two-year term as editor. late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a case study of the qupai Zao Luo Pao from episode Youyuan of Mudan (3) New President. Ting,” presented a case study of the qupai entitled "Zao Luo ACMR successfully conducted its first online and paper-ballot Pao" and analyzed the decline of kunqu oral transmission in election this past fall for the position of president. Members had the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. the option to vote online through the surveymonkey.com website or in-person via paper ballots. The officers extend their thanks for In his presentation, entitled “Managing Historicity and this excellent turnout! Accessibility: Nanyin of Quanzhou,” Hyeok Hweon Kang demonstrates how the sustainability of nanyin music and Candidates for president were Lei Ouyang Bryant, Assistant musical practices in Quanzhou today is characterized by an Professor of Music at Skidmore College, and Frederic Lieberman, emphasis on restoring historical "authenticity" of nanyin Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of performance practice, and at the same time, creating wider California, Santa Cruz. accessibility through musical innovations. Lei Ouyang Bryant received the most votes by a close margin and Finally, Beth Szczepanski’s paper, “Baban and Babao: Form was elected as the new president of ACMR. She will serve a three- and Ritual Function of an Instrumental Interlude at Wu- year term starting from the end of the 2011 meeting to the end of taishan,” dealt with the adaptation of the baban tune type the meeting in 2014. for use in monastic Buddhist ritual. She explored a shortened version that lacks the usual adherence to Confucian number (4) Recognition of Fred Lau. theory but that comprises a brief, internally-symmetrical, After seven years of dedicated service to ACMR (from 2004-2011), descending musical bridge between sacred ritual and Frederick Lau stepped down as president at the 2011 meeting. He ordinary life. offered his parting words and thanks to the ACMR officers for their hard work. In recognition of Fred’s excellent contributions to Each of the papers was well-received and stimulated good the association, the ACMR officers presented Fred with a gift of discussion. As always, the ACMR meeting is an excellent gratitude at the close of the meeting. forum for such presentations suited for Chinese music specialists. Please look for the 2012 ACMR meeting call for abstracts, which will go out in the fall. After items of old business, including the treasurer’s and newsletter editors’ reports, noteworthy items of new business were: (1) Prize Announcements. The first Barbara Barnard Smith prize for best student paper in Chinese music went to Meredith Schweig for her paper “With This Song, You Will Remember: Hip-Hop Activism, Typhoon Morakot, and Narratives of Disaster in Taiwan.” She presented this paper at the 2010 meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Los Angeles, California. (Please see below for more information on this paper.) The Rulan Chao Pian publication prize was not awarded this year due to the low volume of submissions. As a reminder, submissions and nominations for these prizes are typically due two weeks after the annual meeting. Look for the call ACMR thanked outgoing president Fred Lau for for submissions in November and refer to http:// seven years of service with a gift of engraved bookends. Page 3 ACMR Newsletter http://acmr.info/ ACMR Presidential Election Report ACMR extends a warm welcome to its new performance in Asian American musical theatre, president, Lei Ouyang Bryant! She was and social justice and taiko drumming in the elected into office at the 2011 ACMR Annual American midwest. Meeting in Philadelphia and will serve for ACMR three years until the close of the annual The election for ACMR president was conduct- meeting in 2014, at which time she may be ed online through the Survey Monkey voting welcomes considered for a second term. website and in-person at the Philadelphia meeting through a ballot election.
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