Transpacific East Asia
Transformations and Trajectories in Music and Sound
1-2 JUNE 2023 virtual & in-person conference - Sheffield, United Kingdom
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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