Transpacific East Asia

Transformations and Trajectories in Music and Sound

1-2 JUNE 2023 virtual & in-person conference  - Sheffield, United Kingdom


 **Registration for remote attendees is now closed** 

  

Program


THURSDAY 1 JUNE

Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS) 

Conference Room


All times are in BST (British Summer Time).


9:45-10:00 OPENING REMARKS

 HYUN KYONG HANNAH CHANG (University of Sheffield)


10:00-11:00 session 1 TRACING THE BLACK PACIFIC

 chair: Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang


JASON PETRULIS (The Education University of Hong Kong)

Banjo on the Black Ships: a Transpacific History of Black Performance on the Perry Expedition to Japan

 

YUCONG HAO (New York University Shanghai)

Black Voice in Socialist China: Paul Robeson and the Production of Racial Knowledge in the PRC


11:00-12:00 session 2 DIASPORIC STRATEGIES

 chair: Wayne Wong (University of Sheffield) 

 

BERNICE HOI CHING CHEUNG (University of Toronto)

Cantopop: From Death to Life and from Hong Kong to the Diaspora

 

JING XIA (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Transpacific Pathways: Professional Chinese Instrumentalists’ Diasporic Lives in North America


12:00-13:00 Break (lunch)


13:00-14:00 session 3 MUSIC, MEMORY, AGENCY

 chair: Martyn Smith (University of Sheffield)

 

ALEXANDER M. CANNON (University of Birmingham)

Memories and Oceans: An Intimate Sonic Relationship

 

MINGYEONG SON (Harvard University)

Intercultural Bridges to the 'Other': Listening to the Unheard Memories of Korean Diasporic Composers Jin Hi Kim and Texu Kim

 

14:00-15:00 session 4 SPEECH & LANGUAGE NETWORKS

chair: Mike Prentice (University of Sheffield)


YUHAO CHEN (University of Pittsburgh)

Sinophonic Mouth


DEREK J. KRAMER (University of Cambridge), EDWIN MICHIELSEN (The University of Hong Kong)

Esperanto on the Radio: Broadcasting Infrastructure and Politics of Universal Speech in the Japanese Empire


15:00-15:30 Break


15:30-16:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE I

 chair: Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang


NANCY YUNHWA RAO (Rutgers University)

Defining Tune of Transpacific Chinese Diaspora




FRIDAY 2 JUNE

Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS) 

Conference Room


9:30-11:00 session 1 RETHINKING THE LOCAL

 chair: Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield) 


HYE EUN CHOI (New York University Shanghai)

A Minor Transpacific Engagement in the Making of the Japanese Record Industry

 

AMOS FAROOQI (University of Copenhagen)

Transnationalization of Localisms and Cultural Deterritorialization in Korean Hip-hop

 

ABIGAIL I. MACBAIN (University of Edinburgh)

Celebration and Celebrants: The Multicultural Spectacle of Tōdaiji Temple’s Eye-Opening Ceremony

 

11:00-12:00 session 2 TRANSPACIFIC JAZZ MEDIATION

 chair: Andrew Killick (University of Sheffield) 

 

ALEX MURPHY (Kenyon College)

The Voice on the Record: Migration and Mediation in Interwar Japan

 

STELLA ZHIZHI LI (UNC Chapel Hill)

“Listen, Remember, and Recreate”: Jazz 101 in Occupied Japan


12:00-13:00 Break (lunch)


13:00-14:30 session 3 DECENTERING MUSIC HISTORY

 chair: Nozomi Uematsu (University of Sheffield) 


AMANDA HSIEH (Durham University)

Japan’s German Opera in 1920s’ Taiwan

 

YUIKO ASABA (Royal College of Music, London)

Across ‘East Asia’ and ‘Latin America’: The Transoceanic Circulations of Tango and the Bandoneón, 1930s-1940s


HEDY LAW (University of British Columbia)

Operatic Archipelago: Cantonese Opera in the Inter-Oceanic Sinophone Region in 1923


14:30-15:00 Break


15:00-16:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE II

 chair: Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)  


NICHOLAS HARKNESS (Harvard University)

The Transpacific Matter of Sound; or, The Religious Media of Korean War Debris


16:15-16:25 CONCLUDING REMARKS

 HYUN KYONG HANNAH CHANG (University of Sheffield)

This two-day hybrid conference, held on June 1-2 2023, is funded by the Arts Humanities Research Council (UK) and sponsored by the University of Sheffield SEAS (School of East Asian Studies) “Media, Texts, and Sound” Research Cluster. 

Keynote Speakers

Nicholas Harkness 

Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University


Nancy Yunhwa Rao

Professor of Music, Rutgers University


Program Commitee 

Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Bo kyung Blenda Im (Harvard University, USA)

Hee-sun Kim (Kookmin University, South Korea)

Martyn Smith (University of Sheffield, UK)

Local Organising Committee

Pinyuan Li (University of Sheffield)

Wooju Baek (University of Sheffield)



This conference is generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council