{"id":27491,"date":"2017-05-17T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T08:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=27491\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T08:39:15","slug":"lecture-by-prof-dr-frederick-lau-university-of-hawai-at-manoa-listening-to-chinese-music","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/veranstaltung\/lecture-by-prof-dr-frederick-lau-university-of-hawai-at-manoa-listening-to-chinese-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture by Prof. Dr. Frederick Lau (University of Hawai at Manoa): Listening to Chinese Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">Ethnomusicologist Frederick Lau explores ways of listening to Chinese music as a window to understand Chinese society.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">At the core of his presentation is the focus on the linkage between <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">music and culture and how music exemplifies larger social sentiments, practice, and ethos across time and space.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">The definition of Chinese music thus depends on and is affected by its environment and history.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">Lau takes as assumption that Chinese music is ever changing through the ages and its meanings fluctuate according to the socio-cultural climate and pressure from politics.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">In this talk, Lau shares with audience multiple ways to approach Chinese music genres with an emphasis on the context in which music was produced and consumed, as opposed to listening as music in a vacuum.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">The traditional Confucianist social order had dictated how music was performed, perceived, and talked about.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">By way of exploring examples of Confucian ritual music, guqin music, regional music, contemporary traditional genres, Lau takes audiences through a wonderful journey of appreciating Chinese music with a focus on the cultural specificity of the period.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnomusicologist Frederick Lau explores ways of listening to Chinese music as a window to understand Chinese society.\u00a0 At the core of his presentation is the focus on the linkage between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[150],"class_list":["post-27491","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-kultur-veranstaltungen-zh-hans","cat_kultur-veranstaltungen-zh-hans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/27491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/27491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27491"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=27491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}