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DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together four papers based on chapters in the
  forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Music History\, which explores the 
 potential for doing music history otherwise offered by a globally oriented
  perspective. There is no consensus on what the emerging trans-discipline 
 of global music history comprises\, what its main methodologies are\, or e
 ven where its disciplinary boundaries lie. Yet it has become a significant
 \, even transformative development in music studies. A critical mass of re
 search is showing that some of the most important changes in how peoples h
 ave created and conceptualized music stemmed from large-scale connective p
 rocesses that reconfigured their lived musical worlds. \n\nIn honor of the
  conference’s theme and location\, each of this panel’s papers address
 es cross-border music histories and present-day perspectives involving Asi
 a or the Pacific in some significant respect. Sarah Finley analyzes scenes
  of indigenous Mexican festive music-making on a late-1600s Japanese-New S
 panish folding screen from an oceanic perspective that yields a more nuanc
 ed understanding of creole elites’ cosmopolitanism. Turning to the eight
 eenth century\, Olivia Bloechl discusses comparisons of Anishinaabe\, Tahi
 tian\, and Chinese Indonesian recitational singing with French operatic re
 citative in Bougainville’s Atlantic and Pacific writings\, and argues th
 at comparative accounts like these can be critically and creatively interp
 reted as contested sound worlding. The last two papers center on music in 
 present-day Southeast and East Asian contexts. Buenconsejo’s paper makes
  the case for renewed attention to shared dimensions of divergent\, even i
 ncommensurable music cultures\, discussing indigenous Philippine instrumen
 ts as objects in which universals and cultural particularity converge. Fin
 ally\, Hedy Law points to the agency of Cantonese music creators in facili
 tating connections among listeners within and outside Hong Kong and offeri
 ng meaningful frameworks for making sense of the 2020 National Security La
 w’s global reach.
DTSTAMP:20260412T140615Z
LOCATION:Room 304 PC Desk (Seats 36)
SUMMARY:Global Music History in Asia and Beyond - Olivia Bloechl\, Sarah Fi
 nley\, José S. Buenconsejo\, Hedy Law
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/ARXYRS/
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