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5th Annual Conferenceof CHIME
(European Foundation for Chinese Music Research)
Music in cities, music in villages East-Asian music traditions in transition
Prague, Czech Republic, Charles University
15 to 19 September 1999
The fifth annual conference of CHIME, the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research,
focuses on musical contrasts between villages and cities in China and East Asia.
Urban genres in the Far East are often more widely promoted and more thoroughly studied
than their rural counterparts. Many intriguing questions about the links between
urban and rural music
traditions remain to be solved.
In response to our call for papers, we have received over thirty papers and audiovisual
presentations which highlight rural and urban perspectives on living music traditions
in China, Taiwan, Tibet, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. We look forward to
an exciting conference, with an expected attendance of 70 to 80 participants.
The meeting, which includes a number of attractive concerts, takes place in the beautifully
restored Liechtenstein Palace in the heart of historical Prague. It is jointly organized
by the Chiang-Ching-Kuo Foundation International Sinological Center at Charles University
(ISC-CCK), the Academy of Music in Prague (HAMU), and the CHIME Foundation.
PROGRAMME
A full programme will be published in August. Contributions received so far deal
with Austronesian music; rural versus urban pop music in Northern Shaanxi, Xinjiang
and Tibet; Cantonese opera in cities and villages; rural versus urban Chinese folk
songs; Buddhist ritual music in Asian villages and towns; the impact of Chinese film
music; the changing faces of Samul Nori, Kagok, Shijo and other Korean genres; Japanese
rural festivals; Japanese contemporary music; Vietnamese theatre, minority traditions
and a host of other subjects. Additionally, there will be three special sessions,
devoted to 1) East Asian zithers, 2) the music of Mongolia, and 3) East Asian musical
history.
Please note that the deadline for sending abstracts was 31 March 1999. Paper proposals
submitted until 1 August may still be considered, depending on quality and on the
amount of time left in the programme to include more presentations.
The meeting starts on Wednesday 15 September, late in the afternoon (with a reception
and a concert), and runs until
Sunday 19 September, around noon.
CONCERTS
In addition to panels and papers, the meeting will feature a series of attractive
concerts, involving a magnificent Buddhist ritual ensemble from Peking, a presentation
of East Asian zithers (with major artists like Inok Paek and Han Mei on kayagum and
zheng, as well as performances on less familiar types of zithers, such as the Mongolian
yatag). Additionally, there will be old and new pieces for shakuhachi, demonstrations
of Mongolian chant, and an evening concert of nanguan (narrative ballads from S.
China) with the ensemble Han Tang Yuefu from Taipei.
Full details will follow in August. Additional musical events may be scheduled as
intermezzi during paper sessions.
PARTICIPATION & ACCOMMODATION
If you wish to participate in the 5th CHIME meeting, please fill in the attached
form (below) and send it, before 20 June 1999, to: Dr. Lucie Olivova, International
Sinological Center, Celetná 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic. You may also
send the form by e-mail: CCK-ISC@ff.cuni.cz
Please make your own accommodation arrangements. We advise you to book your hotel
well in advance, preferably soon! The tourist season in Prague continues well into
autumn, and hotels tend to be booked full several months in advance.
You may contact Daido Travel in Prague, fax +420-2-5731.3300, e-mail: daido@login.cz
(tell them your budget and dates, and that you will attend the Chime Conference.
They will help you to find 2 or 3 star hotels not too far from HAMU (the conference
site), for prices from 50 US $ per double room (with own bathroom) upwards.
REGISTRATION
The registration fee for the meeting is 2000 CZK (roughly 65 US Dollars). You are
requested to pay this fee in cash (in Czech money) upon arrival, at the registration
desk in HAMU. The fee covers full participation in the meeting, coffee and tea during
breaks in the paper sessions, tickets for three evening concerts, a reception on
15 September, and a dinner on 16 September. It also includes a subscription to the
CHIME journal for the up-coming year.
We have exempted some special guests from paying this registration fee. These participants
have been informed about this individually.
ADDRESSES (PLUS A NOTE ABOUT MEALS)
The address of HAMU (The Academy of Music), the conference site, is: Malostranské
námestí 13, Prague. (Námestí means 'square'). You will get there
by trams nos. 12 or 22, which stop at Malostranské námestí. Alternatively,
you can take Metro line B (green colour), which stops at the Malostranská.
HAMU has a cafeteria next door, which is run by the Academy. Here you can have lunches
at reasonable prices. The spot is highly advisable, since the Malá Strana district
is a tourist quarter and most public restaurants in the area tend to be overcrowded
and overpriced.
One of our three evening concerts will take place at HAMU. Two other musical evenings
(on 15 and 18 September ) will be held at Akropolis, a 400-seat theatre in Vinohrady,
a twon quarter on the other side of the river. The Akropolis theatre can be reached
by Metro line B (green colour), which stops at Jirího z Podebrad station. There
is a cafeteria attached to this theatre where you can have supper on the two evenings
in question. (Again, this is advisable, since there won't be too much time left
in-between paper sessions and concerts on those days.) You are expected to pay all
meals yourself, with the exception of a dinner offered to all participants on 16
September.
THE MAIN VENUE: HAMU
Towards the end of 1993, Prague's musical ambiance was enriched when the newly restored
Liechtenstein Palace in the Mala Strana district was returned to public use. The
palace now houses a modern concert hall, numerous music rooms and lecture halls.
This palace will host the CHIME meeting.
After three years of intensive renovation, the building has become the seat of the
Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) in Prague.
The palace belongs to the finest works of Renaissance architecture in the Czech capital.
It incorporates a gothic tower and a baroque facade, but its new interior is dominated,
quite surprisingly, by the avant-garde designs of Czech architect Pavel Kupka. Well
worth visiting!
DAY TO DAY SCHEDULE
Wednesday 15 September
4.00 PM to 7 PM: Registration and a social get-together at HAMU.
8.00 PM: Concert by the Beijing Buddhists - not to be missed! - at Akropolis.
Thursday 16 September
9.30 AM to 12.30: Morning sessions (plus coffee break).
2.00 PM to 5.30 PM: Afternoon sessions (plus tea break).
7.00 PM: Dinner party.
Friday 17 September
9.30 AM to 12.30: Morning sessions (plus coffee break).
2.00 PM to 5.30 PM: Free afternoon for shopping or sight-seeing in Prague.
8.00 PM: concert of East Asian zithers at HAMU.
Saturday 17 September
9.30 AM to 12.30: Morning sessions (plus coffee break).
2.00 PM to 5.30 PM: Afternoon sessions (plus tea break).
8.00 PM: concert of nanguan music with Han Tang Yuefu at Akropolis
Sunday morning 19 September.
9.30 AM to 12.30: Final paper sessions and closing remarks.
ABOUT CHIME
CHIME is an international foundation for the promotion of Chinese music research.
It was founded early in 1990 by European music scholars and Asia experts from four
different countries. CHIME takes an interest in Han Chinese music, but also in other
native music traditions within the current geographical borders of China, and in
the music cultures of other parts of East Asia.
Its major function is to create an international network of researchers of Chinese
and East Asian music who meet regularly to discuss their work in progress. The foundation
publishes a biannual, refereed journal in English, with scholarly essays, travel
reports, information on books, records, scientific journals, concerts, seminars and
meetings, current research projects, university programs and possibilities for scholarships.
CHIME organizes workshops, concerts and meetings. Previous meetings took place in
Geneva (1991), Rotterdam (1995), Leiden (1997) and Heidelberg (1998), while future
conferences are scheduled in Leiden (2000), Venice (2001) and Sheffield (2002).
At its office in Leiden, the Netherlands, the Foundation has established a specialist
library and a sound archive which, up to date, hold approximately 4,000 books and
music scores, 3,000 cassettes, magnetic tapes and gramophone records (including 78
rpm commercial records as well as rare historical field recordings), and several
hundred video tapes. The Foundation subscribes to over 150 journals in the field
of ethnomusicology, Asian and Chinese music.
For further information about CHIME, contact Antoinet Schimmelpenninck or Frank Kouwenhoven
at CHIME, P.O.Box 11092, 2301 EB Leiden, Holland.
Phone +31-71-5133.974 or 5133.123. Fax: +31-71-5123.183.
E-mail: chime@wxs.nl
For further information about the Prague meeting, contact Lucie Olivova at the address
below.
Conference address:
For all enquiries about the programme and about participation:
Dr. Lucie Olivova,
International Sinological Center,
Celetná 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic.
E-mail: Borotovl@ruk.cuni.cz
(or: CCK-ISC@ff.cuni.cz)
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5th annual conference of CHIME
Music in cities, music in villages - East-Asian music traditions in transition
Prague, 15 to 19 September 1999
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Publications
•Chinese
Folk Songs and Folk Singers
Shan'ge Traditions in Southern Jiangsu by ANTOINET SCHIMMELPENNINCK
A major focus of this study is monothematism: the existence of 'one tune' folk song
areas, where singers perform the bulk of their lyrics to a single tune or two or
three closely related tune forms. Monothematism, arguably one of the most intriguing
aspects of shan'ge culture, is examined here in relation to tune variation, processes
of remembering and mechanisms of oral transmission.
DR. ANTOINET SCHIMMELPENNICK is co-editor of the CHIME journal.
Book 445 pp. +1 CD (70 min of field recordings) wrapped inside front cover; 35 b/w
illus., 66 music exs., 84 lyrics in Chinese and Engl. transl., gloss., index.
The book (including CD) costs NLG 75 (USD 37.50), plus postage: add NLG 10 (USD 5)
for Europe, or NLG 20 (USD 10) rest of world (surface mail rates).
Order=========================================
To:CHIME, P.O.Box 11092, 2301 EB Leiden, Holland. Phone +31-71-5133974
or +31-71-5133123. Fax:+31-71-5123183
Email:chime@wxs.nl
•Folk
Music of China -
Living Instrumental Traditions by Stephen Jones
Clarendon Press, OUP, Oxford, 1995, xxviii + 422pp, photos, tables, music,
bibliographer. Hardcover edition.
ISBN 0-19-816200-6.
"Jones draws on an immense corpus of Chinese scholarship and has consulted a
truly stunning number of books and articles. All the same, his own fieldwork forms
the basic of his study. Obviously he cannot cover all of China. The varied musical
traditions of ethnic minorities have not been included, and vast areas of Han Chinese
music, notably northern Shanxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Anhui, still await in-depth study."
by Frank Kouwenhoven
Details see CHIME No.9, Autumn 1996
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•ORDER
CHIME
Chime 10-11 (1997) has been published as a double issue
in March 1999. Chime 12-13 (1998) will be published in August and Chime 14-15 at
the end of 1999.
GOOD NEWS TO "CHIME" READERS!!! The rates of "CHIME"
is now simply NLG 50 (USD 25) per year. Agents get 10 % discount.
For orders / information on back issues / information on how to
pay, etc. please contact:
European Foundation For Chinese
Music Research
P.O.Box 11092, 2301 EB Leiden, The Netherlands
Tel:31.71.5133123/5133974 • Fax:31.71.5123183
E-mail:chime@wxs.nl
----CHIME Journal Editor-----
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