History of Music in China Symposium

Nov
22
2014

9:00am - 6:00pm | Penn Museum Widener Lecture Room

Coffee and Registration, 8:30-9:00 am
Greetings and Opening Remarks, 9:00-9:20 am

MORNING PRESENTATIONS

    Stirrings of the Heart: Classical Chinese Conceptions of Music and Self-Expression
    Keynote Speaker: Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
    9:20-10:00 am
    Early Chinese Music as Seen through Excavated Texts
    Scott Cook, Yale-NUS College
    10:00- 10:40 am
Coffee Break 10:40 – 11:00 am
    Hokkien Music in Perspective: Rethinking the Ancient Origins Belief
    Alan R. Thrasher, University of British Columbia
    11:00-11:40 am
    The Issues of Performing/Reconstructing Ancient Chinese Music for Contemporary Audiences
    Joseph Lam, University of Michigan
    11:40-12:20 pm

Lunch Break 12:20-2:20 pm

AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS

    An Unusual Tianlai 天籟: Reconstructing Early Fusion Music in Ancient Qiuzi 龜茲
    Agnes Hsu-Tang, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
    2:20-3:00 pm
    Visualizing Sound: Traces of the Round Pipa in Han Textual and Material Cultures
   Noa Hegesh, University of Pennsylvania
    3:00-3:40 pm
    The Barbarian Lute: Introduction and Assimilation in the First Centuries CE
    Ingrid Furniss, Lafayette College
    3:40-4:20 pm
Coffee Break 4:20-4:40 pm
    Music During the Six Dynasties Period
    Bo Lawergren, Hunter College of The City University of New York
    4:40-5:20 pm
    The Rise of the Fanbai 梵唄 Musical Practice in Six Dynasties China
    Kelsey Seymour, University of Pennsylvania
    5:20-6:00

* East Asian Languages and Civilizations

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