1st Edition
Cross-Cultural Musicology from Asia-Pacific Perspectives Entangled Histories
Introduction
Part I: Theories
1. Reflections on Complexities in Contemplating Global Music History
Melanie Unseld
2. Alternative Histories of Twentieth-Century Music: On synchronization and entanglement as historiographical methods
Tobias Janz
3. Mediterranean Voices: Music History in Today’s Plural Societies
Gesa zur Nieden
4. Asia as Method: Early Twentieth-Century Asianism and the Writing of Music History
Chien-Chang Yang
5. Overcoming Asymmetry: Repositioning East Asian Musics
Diau-long Shen
6. Cross-Colonial Counterpoint: Korean and Taiwanese Music in Transimperial Entanglement
Fumitaka Yamauchi
7. Nationalism or National Indifference?: Western Music Historiographies in Japan
Fuyoko Fukunaka
Part II: Practices
8. Computational Methods and Approaches for a Global Music History
Estelle Joubert
9. Real and Imagined Musical Journeys: Historical Performance, Voyages,
and Crossover Projects
David R. M. Irving
10. Life History of Objects: The Case of a “Scene in the Principal Chinese Theatre, San Francisco”
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
11. Cross-cultural interactions of different eras: Fieldwork and music education spaces in contemporary India Aditi Krishna
12. Getting Your Own Back: Cross-Cultural Movement of Intangible Valuables in Aboriginal Australia
Richard Moyle
13. Current currents in ethnomusicology: Aukilani, Pasifika, Aotearoa New Zealand decantations
Kirsten Zemke and Luka Bunnin
Biography
Nancy November is Professor of Musicology at the University of Auckland. Her research examines music and culture in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to chamber music, historiography, and the politics of canon formation. She also works on higher-education pedagogy and decolonial research methodologies, including Pacific and Indigenous approaches to knowledge-making.
