Events
The past, present, and future events of the Asian-German Studies in Music Working Group
Reading, group, 1 December 2025 online
Details coming soon…
Reading group, 1 September 2025 online
Yoon, Kyong. ‘K-Pop Trans/Nationalism’. In Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism, ed. Ajaya K. Sahoo: 394–405. Routledge, 2023.
Jin, Dal Yong Jin. Understanding the Korean Wave: Transnational Korean Pop Culture and Digital Technologies. Routledge, 2024. Chapter 3 (pp. 29–45), and if you’d like to read more, Chapter 5 (pp. 63–78).
Reading group, 2 June 2025 online (with special guest Peter Asimov)
Asimov, Peter. ‘The Melakartas and the “République Modale”: Naturalizing Indian Scales in French Musical Modernism’. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 149, no. 2 (2024): 383–439.
Walen, Daniel K. S. ‘The Global Tonnetz’. Journal of the American Musicological Society 77, no. 2 (2024): 447–509 (with an emphasis on: Introduction, ‘The Palm of Priority: Khare’s Indian Tonnetz’, and ‘Reviving the “Oriental” Spirit’ sections).
Reading group, 3 March 2025 online
Yavuz, Elif Damla. ‘Institutionalizing Opera in Turkey: Carl Ebert and the Opera Studio’. In ‘Resounding 1923: Musical Modernities from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic’, ed. Jacob Olley, special issue. the world of music (new series) 13, no. 1 (2024).
Sancar, Ayça. ‘The Opera as the Temple of Secularism’. In ‘The Stage of the State: Opera Architecture and Cultural Politics in Turkey 1923-1956’. PhD diss, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2022, 42-101.
Reading group, 2 December 2024 online
Heilie, Björn. Introduction and Chapter 5 ‘Younghi Page-Pann: “Composer Rooted in an Asian Thought-World”‘, 1–28 and 178–222. In his Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Manuscript workshop, 24 and 26 June 2024 online
Similar to our August 2022 session, participants shared manuscripts of ca. 2500–6000 words in length with the seminar group two weeks in advance. In the seminar, each participant had 5 minutes to introduce their project before a 25-minute workshop discussion.
Presenters (in alphabetical order): Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Amanda Hsieh, Sarah Panzer, Demetrius Shahmehri, Mingyeong Son, and Lufan Xu.
Reading group, 1 March 2024 online
Lee, Meebae. ‘National Identity and Colonial Modernity in Gagok: Korean Art Songs of the Japanese Colonial Period’, 14 pp. In The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950, edited by Alison McQueen Tokita and Joys H. Y. Cheung. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Janz, Tobias and Yang Chien-Chang. ‘Introduction: Musicology, Musical Modernity, and the Challenges of Entangled History’, 9–40. In Decentering Musical Modernity: Perspectives on East Asian and European Music History, edited by Janz and Yang. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2019.
Recommended:
Everett, Yayoi Uno. ‘Intercultural Synthesis in Postwar Western Art Music: Historical Contexts, Perspectives, and Taxonomy’, xv–xx. In Locating East Asia in Western Art Music, edited by Everett and Frederick Lau. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
Reading group, 1 December 2023 online
Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O. Chapter 4 ‘Decolonise This! Taking History and Agency Seriously’, pp . In Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. Hurst Publishers, 2022.
Shih, Shu-Mei. Chapter 6 ‘Cosmopolitanism among Empires’, 165–182. In Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific. University of California Press, 2007.
Roundtable panel, AMS | SMT 2023 Joint Annual Meeting, 9–12 November 2023, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA
Roundtable panel, ‘Fairy Tales and Music between “Asia” and “Germany”‘. Participants: John Gabriel, Amanda Hsieh, and Brooke McCorkle Okazaki (Chair: Anicia Timberlake)
Reading group, 1 September 2023 online
Nicholson, Rashna Darius. Chapter 6 ‘The Expansion of the Parsi Theatre’, 175–214. In The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage. Palgrave Macmillan 2021.
yamomo, meLê. ‘Global Current, Musical Streams: European Opera in Colonial Southeast Asia’, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 44, no. 1 (2017): 54–74.
Reading group, 1 June 2023 online
Rehding, Alexander. ‘Von 茉莉花 zu Moo-Lee-Chwa. Geschichte eines musikalischen Transfers Ca. 1796.’ In Music in China Today: Ancient Traditions, Contemporary Trends, Vol. 21. VWB Verlag: 2017.
Hu, Lester. ‘A Global Phonographic Revolution: Trans-Eurasian Resonances of Writing in Early Modern France and China.’ In Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity, edited by Emily Wilbourne and Suzanne G. Cusick, 167–200. OpenBook Publishers: 2021.
Reading group, 1 February 2023 online
Loges, Natasha. ‘Alenurkhan, Ananurhan: Worlding an Uyghur Folksong for the Western Classical Recital.’ In Special Issue of Jahrbuch Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik: ‘World Music’ through a Postcolonial Lens – Current Debates in Theory and Practice. Forthcoming.
Rinderle, Peter. Excerpts from ‘Die Diversität von Kulturen’. In Grundlinien einer globalen Ethik: Gerechtigkeit, Politik und Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Springer 2021.
Reading group, 1 December 2022 online
Pow, Jun Kai, ‘Southeast Asian Music on German Records, 1906-1926’. Manuscript in progress.
Lubinski, Christina, and Andreas Steen, ‘Traveling Entrepreneurs, Traveling Sounds: The Early Gramophone Business in India and China’. Itinerario 41, no. 2 (2017): 275–303.
Pre-IMS seminar, 8–9 August 2022 online
Prior to the International Musicological Society Congress in Athens, we held a pre-conference seminar online. We invited interested researchers, teachers, and art practitioners to share work-in-progress in an open and supportive setting. Participants shared manuscripts of ca. 2500–6000 words in length (or work in any other appropriate format) with the seminar group two weeks in advance. In the seminar, each participant had 5 minutes to introduce their project before a 25-minute workshop discussion.
Presenters (in alphabetical order): Jan Creutzenberg, John Gabriel, Monika Hennemann, Amanda Hsieh, Elaine Kelly, Misako Ohta, and Junko Sonoda.
This pre-conference seminar was additional to the IMS Global Music History Study Group’s session during the IMS2022 Congress, which took place on Tuesday 23 August, 9.00 am – 12.00 pm (local time in Athens).
Roundtable panel, 12th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 190, 18 June 2022, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK
Roundtable panel, ‘Representing Asian-German Relations in Music at Home and Abroad’. Participants: John Gabriel, Amanda Hsieh, and Daniel Walden
Reading group, 1 June 2022 online
Agnew, Vanessa. ‘The colonialist beginnings of comparative musicology’, 41–60. In Germany’s colonial pasts, ed. Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Chen, Nancy N. ‘ “Speaking nearby: a conversation with Trinh T. Minh-ha’. Visual Anthropology Review 8, no. 1 (1992): 82–91.
Trinh T. Minh-ha, director. Reassemble, 1982. 40 mins. https://vimeo.com/653983632
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