1ST OFFICIAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE ICTM STUDY GROUP ON GLOBAL HISTORY OF MUSIC

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Brief Introduction of 1st Official Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Global History of Music

Mobility and Transcultura in Music and Performance in Global Civilisations

 

1st International Symposium hosted by the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, People’s Republic of China, between 13 and 14 May 2021. Sichuan Conservatory of Music (SCCM) is located inside the city of Chengdu, one of the three most-populous cities in Western China and known for its scenic beauty, rich cultural relics, and its globally acclaimed food. Located in the heart of Sichuan Province and serving as its capital city, it is surrounded by the Chengdu Plain, known as the "Country of Heaven" and the "Land of Abundance.”

Migration and trade have fostered intercultural networks through time and space. Performing arts including music, dance, poetry, and theatre have travelled along and through these networks, presenting and representing their cultures of origin while adapting to or adopting local practice in their travels. Transcultura speaks to the inter-subjective view developed through an understanding of convivial exchange and reciprocal culture-related histories. Performance practice is ideal for transcultura study as it can reinforce, reflect, change, challenge, preserve or reciprocate culture and knowledge as it encounters other practices and cultures.

We invite papers and presentations engaging with the topic of mobility and transcultural in music and related performance broadly or through three conference sub-themes.

1) Isolation, Collaboration, Adaptation: Performance practices along and beyond the regions of the Great Silk Road.

While the Great Silk Road was indeed a web of travellers fostering millennia of encounters, it may also be understood as a symbol of similar networks elsewhere. Whether productive or protective, collaborative or combative, adaptive or isolationist, how have such encounters affected past and present performance practices?

2) Economic perspectives of musical change and exchange: the role of trade in music history of global civilisations.

Since time immemorial, trade in goods, services, people, and resources has fostered movement and reciprocity between peoples. Music in all its manifestations, has accompanied local and global trade, affecting and being affected by economic interests. What are ways in which trade and economic exchange have played a role in music history, and how can those influences be heard in contemporary practice?

3) Music, Dance, Drama, and Puppetry: Inclusive performance practices and their histories

In many cultures of the world, music is rarely performed in isolation, but rather is an integrated part of practices that include dance, drama, puppetry and more. To focus only on music can often be to exclude what may be truly valuable, yet to cast too broad net may lead to confusion. Which performance practices should be included in globally situated research, and what might their inclusion teach us about music history approaches and discourses?

Organizers

Host: International Council for Traditional Music（ICTM）

Co-Host: Sichuan Conservatory of Music (SCCM)

Executive organizer：Academy of Chinese Traditional Music of SCCM

Supporting organizer：Musicology Department Of SCCM

国际传统音乐学会全球音乐史首届研讨会简介

国际传统音乐学会全球音乐史首届研讨会将于2021年5月13日至14日召开，会议将采用线上形式进行。本研讨会为联合国教科文组织顾问单位国际传统音乐学会（ICTM）的专题研讨会议，由国际传统音乐学会与四川音乐学院联合主办，四川音乐学院中华传统音乐研究院承办，四川音乐学院音乐学系协办。

会议主题：全球文明中音乐与表演的流动性与跨文化性

 

论题一：区隔、合作与适应：丝绸之路沿线地区的音乐表演实践

丝绸之路是一个旅行者的网络，它造就了千年来的邂逅。丝路也被视为文明流动的象征，无论创作或是保护、合作或是竞争、适应或是孤立，这些邂逅是如何影响了过去和现在的音乐实践呢？

 

论题二：经济学视野的音乐变革与交流：贸易对全球文明音乐史的作用

自古以来，贸易促进了各国人民之间的流动和互惠。绝大多数的音乐表现形式都伴随着地方和全球贸易，影响经济利益，也反过来受其影响。经贸交流在音乐史上起着哪些作用？在当代实践中如何观察到这些影响？

 

分主题三：音乐、舞蹈、戏剧和木偶：综合性表演实践及其历史

在世界上的许多文化中，音乐都不是孤立存在的，而是与舞蹈、戏剧、木偶等形式合而一体。只关注音乐可能会丢失它真正的价值，但领域太宽又可能会导致混乱。哪些表演艺术应该纳入全球性的研究？将它们纳入其中，又会让我们了解哪些音乐史学中的方法和话语？

主办单位：国际传统音乐学会、四川音乐学院

承办单位：四川音乐学院中华传统音乐研究院

协办单位：四川音乐学院音乐学系

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More information

Links of the conference： 

1. Conference brochure of the first International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Global History of Music:

2. Zoom link QR code of the online meeting of the first ICTM Study Group on Global History of Music 

      

3. Link of Chinese traditional music film "Sound Memory in China" broadcasted on the first   ICTM Study Group on Global History of Music 

 Links of the units： 

1.  Official website of the ICTM: https: //www.ictmusic.org/ 

        

2.  Official website and We Chat Official Account of Sichuan Conservatory Of Music (SCCM): http: //www.sccm.cn/; 

      

3. We Chat Official Account of the Academy of Chinese Traditional Music of SCCM: 

      

4.  We Chat Official Account of the Department of Music of SCCM:

                            

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