Association for Chinese Music Research Bibliography Update 2011

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Analysis of the current situation and trends in research on Kunqu opera costumes based on the China National Knowledge Infrastructure

The research on Kunqu opera costumes presents a diversified and multidimensional trend in the 21st century. This article analyzes the current situation of research on Kunqu opera costumes in China by examining the annual distribution of literature on the subject on the Chinese Knowledge Network, as well as the keywords and fluctuations in research areas. The aim is to explore the hot issues and trends in research on Kunqu opera costumes in China in recent years, in order to provide support for the protection and development of traditional theater. In the future, the focus of research will be on innovative design of Kunqu opera costumes, cultural heritage, digital technology, and multicultural studies

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Asian Theatre as Method: The Toki Experimental Project and Sino-Japanese Transnationalism in Performance

In 2012, Zuni Icosahedron (Hong Kong), Za-Koenji (Tokyo), and the Jiangsu Kun Opera Theatre (Nanjing) initiated the Toki Experimental Project, an intercultural platform devoted to the transmission of kunqu and noh through contemporary performance. Originating from a Shanghai Expo 2010 commission, Toki presents strategic interpenetration of national discourse and “minor” transnational dynamics. Most significantly, it provides a theatrical application of Chen Kuan-hsing’s influential notion of “Asia as method”. As epitomized by the yearly One Table, Two Chairs performances at Nanjing’s Toki International Arts Festival, Toki partakes in Asia as method’s effort toward “decolonization, deimperialization, and de-cold war” through aesthetic and epistemological deconstruction, endorsing a dialogic model of intercultural performance as inter-Asian relation

From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: the rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites

A new generation of elites distinguished by their cultural endowments has emerged in China. Unlike the older generation of elites who signaled status through the display of wealth but shared similar tastes, the new generation of cultured elites has sophisticated, often Western-oriented “highbrow” tastes in their cultural consumption. By comparing the upbringings and the tastes of interviewees from various backgrounds, this study suggests a widening taste-chasm between the elites and the underclasses in urban cities. The social process behind this is argued to be the rapid formation of cultural capital in China, in which parental privileges accumulated in the market economy converted into cultural privileges in the new generation of new elites

The Value and Influence of the Local Folk Song “Jasmine Flower” in College Students' Music Education

Folk song is one of the oldest art forms of mankind and occupies an important position in Chinese traditional music. Jiangsu Yangzhou's “Jasmine Flower” is known as the “first song” of folk songs in the south of the Yangtze River, which has been widely circulated and loved by the people. College students can understand the long history of Chinese traditional music through studying the generation and evolution of the local folk song “Jasmine Flower”; they can understand the aesthetic value of Chinese traditional music and culture through the analysis of Jasmine Flower’s music and exploration of its artistic characteristics; the aesthetic ideas and profound humanistic connotations contained in folk songs are of great value in college students’ education. Through the analysis of the music and exploration of the artistic characteristics of “Jasmine”, we can understand the aesthetic value of traditional Chinese music and culture; the traditional Chinese aesthetic thought and profound humanistic connotation contained in the folk song have an important value and influence on the education of college students

「伝統」の継承と変化についての教育人類学的研究 ―「権威的知識」概念から見た伝統芸能 ―

本研究は、「伝統」の継承や変化とはいかなる過程かという普遍的な問題に対して、教育人類学的な視点から伝統芸能の伝承過程を捉え直すことで、新たな貢献を目指すものである。そして、本研究は、衰退化しつつある伝統芸能をより良く保護するために、どのような具体的課題に注目すべきかを明らかにする試みである。ここでは、「権威的知識」と呼ばれる概念を用いて、激動の歴史を歩んできた中国の伝統芸能の事例を取り上げ、比較的安定した日本のような社会とは異なるその伝承過程の特徴を浮き彫りにしたい。これまで、「伝統」の継承や変化については、様々な研究者が異なる切り口から考察してきたが、「権威的知識」の概念を用いた研究は、それを提唱したブリジット・ジョーダンが産婆の研究（2001）をしていたこともあって、助産に関する研究など医療分野に限られている。そのような状況を踏まえ、本研究は、この概念が芸能教育の分野へも応用できることを示し、伝統芸能の伝承のあり方を考察する際に役立つ知見を提供したい。departmental bulletin pape