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Ethnomusicology, 1900–Present, Asian Studies, Global / Transnational Studies, Indigenous Music / Decolonial Studies, Race / Ethnicity / Social Justice, AMS
Presentations
Interrogating "Global East Asia"
Chair(s): Kunio Hara (University of South Carolina)
Presenter(s): Amanda Hsieh (Durham University), Peng Liu (Truman State University), Bess Xintong Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
Organized by the AMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group
Global. East. Asia. Each of these words has porous boundaries that — altogether — presents a complexity that is both intensely rich and perilously shaky. The proposed panel therefore seeks to interrogate the very idea of “Global East Asia” through a collaborative, open-ended discussion centering on two key texts by Manuel Perez Garcia (2014) and Haneda Masashi (2015).
This will be an important discussion in this particular moment, both intellectually and politically. Since the founding of the Global East Asian Music Research Study Group in 2018, interests in the idea of “global music history” have increased greatly within the discipline of musicology. Prior to this, too, scholars of East Asian Studies (both in and outside of musicology) have begun to reconsider the boundaries of conventional area studies, presenting alternate modes of inquiry around concepts such as the Sinophone (Shih, Tsai, and Bernards 2013) the Transpacific (Hoskins and Nguyen 2014). Additionally, the geopolitical tensions in the Pacific region are rapidly escalating. The various unexpected repercussions of the global pandemic as well as the development of digital technology have presented both new challenges and opportunities to pursue academic research. The renewed sense of urgency to reexamine the fraught history of racial discrimination against people of East Asian descent in the West have also opened up new modes of collaboration throughout the globe.
In light of these transformative developments, the seminar will be led by a group of discussion leaders but is open to both members of the study group and any members of AMS and SMT interested in the topic. The goal of the session is to reassess the relevance of the notion of “Global East Asia” in current scholarship as well as to reinvigorate our study group members’ scholarly interests and activities.
Readings:
Haneda, Masashi. “Japanese Perspectives on ‘Global History.’” _Asian Review of World Histories_ 3/2 (2015): 219–234.
Pérez García, Manuel. “From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The New Challenges in Global History.” _European Journal of Scientific Research_ 119 (2014): 337–352.
