在线国产一区二区_成人黄色片在线观看_国产成人免费_日韩精品免费在线视频_亚洲精品美女久久_欧美一级免费在线观看

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
China / Society

Harmony enhanced by music discussion

By Wang Kaihao (China Daily) Updated: 2012-09-03 10:54

There were no musical instruments or singing in the meeting room on the first afternoon of East-West Center and East-West Center Alumni International Conference on Saturday in Beijing, but scholars from the United States and China joined in harmony through a panel discussion on music.

Frederick Lau, director of the Center for Chinese Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa, spoke of his study of Chinese music in a Hawaiian context during a lecture titled Singing as Collective Memory: Chinese Choir in the Diaspora, his insights gleaned through his six years with the Han Sheng Chinese Choir - literally, "voice of Han people" - in Honolulu.

"The choir members join not only for fun or as an artistic pursuit," Lau said. "They build an identity for themselves."

Lau said few of the choir members are second- or third-generation Chinese.

"New generations of Chinese want to get rid of the old image of Chinese Hawaiians as laborers and plantation workers, so many prefer to get involved in higher education and behave like other Americans."

"However, the choir is an activity in which it is easier for them to embrace their Chinese identity. They will naturally express their emotions, which are hidden at other times."

Lau said Hawaii is a perfect place for such study because local Chinese are more diverse than the ethnic Chinese in most other overseas areas.

"We have members from the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They speak different dialects and may have different backgrounds. It is interesting to see that they don't have the same understanding of what China means, but they show that they identify with the same country through singing."

Thanks to its multicultural background, Hawaii became a hub for ethnomusicology, the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts, shortly after the subject came into being around the 1950s.

Lau said the studies on Chinese music have been popular in US colleges since the 1960s, and have greatly expanded over time. Chinese folk music of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and operas of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) are among the first topics that aroused the academia's interest, and US scholars have paid more attention to Chinese modern folklore in recent years.

One of Lau's recent studies looked at the connection between the flute and politics in China.

However, the Hong Kong-born professor lamented that while American colleges continue studying Chinese music more at greater depth, their Chinese counterparts have not done the same with American music.

wangkaihao@chinadaily.com.cn

Highlights
Hot Topics
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 三上悠亚一区 | 国产精品久久久一区二区 | 日本人の夫妇交换 | 黄色a一级 | 国产一区二区在线播放 | 黄色a视频 | 亚洲精品美女 | 亚洲视频免费观看 | av在线播放网站 | 亚洲视频在线视频 | 亚洲免费成人 | 国产一区二区视频在线播放 | 91亚洲国产成人久久精品麻豆 | 九九视频在线免费观看 | 一区二区在线免费观看 | 日韩视频精品 | 五月天激情视频 | 国产91精品在线观看 | 精品国产91 | 欧美理论片在线观看 | 超碰在线观看免费版 | 亚洲第一第二区 | 一区中文字幕 | 免费av在线播放 | 一本一道久久a久久精品蜜桃 | 日韩和的一区二区 | 久久精品中文 | 一区二区三区四区在线播放 | 日皮视频免费看 | 91视频免费在线观看 | 成人免费激情视频 | 在线视频黄 | 丝袜美腿一区二区三区 | 91精品国产麻豆国产自产在线 | 免费网站av | 黄色a毛片 | av片在线看 | 在线日韩一区 | 黄色小视频免费观看 | 成年人av | 一级片黄色片 |