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【[19th lecture in the M.S. Visvesvaraya – Okakura Tenshin Lecture Series] “Music and Modern Nations: How Japan Joined the Global Concert”】
Date and Time: Friday, August 9, 2024 | 3:00PM-4:00 PM IST |
Speaker: Prof. Margaret Mehl, University of Copenhagen
Topic: “Music and Modern Nations: How Japan Joined the Global Concert”
Discussants:
1. Prof. Lakshmi Subramanian (CSSSC Kolkata and BITS Pilani, Retd.)
2. Prof. Partho Datta (School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi)
Chair: Prof. Brij Tankha, former professor of modern Japanese History, Department of East Asian Studies (Delhi University, Retd.)
Lecture Summary:
The talk will focus on the main arguments presented in my recently published book, Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert (Open Access: www.openbookpublishers.com/
While the book is mainly about Japan, much of what happened there reflected a global trend, as is illustrated in Bob van der Linden’s article “Non-Western National Music and Empire in Global History: Interactions, Uniformities, and Comparisons” (2015). Van der Linden places Japan and India on two ends of a spectrum: Japan fully embraced Western music, to the point where Japan’s traditional music was marginalized. India largely held on to its own music, but elite reformers took inspiration from Western musical theory and institutions to systematize and standardize.
Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country’s rise to a major player on the stage of Western music has been equally spectacular. In only fifty years, from the 1870s to the early 1920s, Japanese people laid the foundations for the country’s post-war rise as a musical as well as an economic power. Meanwhile, new types of popular song, fuelled by the growing global record industry, successfully blended inspiration from the West with musical characteristics perceived as Japanese. The connection between these two developments, however, has never been explored.
How did making music make Japan modern? How did Japan make music that originated in Europe its own? And what happened to Japan’s traditional music in the process? These are some of the questions I address in Music and the Making of Modern Japan. Discussing musical modernization in the context of globalization and nation-building, I argue that, far from being a side-show, music was part of the action on centre stage. Making music became an important vehicle for empowering the people of Japan to join in the shaping of the modern world.
Speaker’s Bio:
Margaret Mehl is a historian of modern Japan with a special interest in musical culture. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, having previously held appointments at the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Stirling, and Berlin. As well as a doctorate from the University of Bonn, Margaret Mehl holds a Dr. Phil. (Habilitation) from the University of Copenhagen. She has lived and worked in Japan as a researcher on several occasions, where she has had affiliations with the University of Tokyo, and with Waseda University. Margaret Mehl has published widely on the history of historiography, education, and music in modern Japan. Her previous books include History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan (which has been translated into Japanese), Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline and Transformation of the Kangaku Juku, and Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850–2010. When she is not reading, writing or teaching, Margaret Mehl enjoys playing her violin and has performed in amateur orchestras and chamber ensembles in several countries.
Profile at the University of Copenhagen https://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?
Website
https://margaretmehl.com/
Discussant’s Bio:
Lakshmi Subramanian retired as a professor of history CSSSC Kolkata and BITS Pilani. She has had a long and distinguished teaching career and has published extensively in the field of Indian Ocean studies and on music and performance in modern India. Her publications include Singing Gandhi’s India Music and Sonic Nationalism, 2020.
Partho Datta teaches Music Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has been a Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and amongst his publications are, Planning the City Urbanization and Reform in Calcutta c. 1800 – c. 1940. 2012.
Chair’s Bio
Brij Tankha retired as Professor of Modern Japanese History, Department of East Asia, University of Delhi and is currently Honorary Fellow and Co-ordinator East Asia Programme, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. His research interests centre on nationalism, religion and Japan’s interactions with China and India, and situating Japanese history within a broader global and region framework.Amongst his publications are, Tanaka Shōzō (1841-1913): The Politics of Democracy and Equality in Modern Japan, East Asia Series, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. July 8, 2021, Edited, Shadows of the Past of Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism, (Sampark, Kolkatta,2007, and Global Oriental, 2008.), (Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan: A Vision of Empire (Global Oriental, London, 2003 and 2006).
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【合評会「知識と情報の中国政治史」のご案内】
合評会「知識と情報の中国政治史」の知らせ
今年に入り、2月に比護遥氏（日本学術振興会特別研究員PD）
比護遥著『近現代中国と読書の政治
──読書規範の論争史』
周俊著『中国共産党の神経系
──情報システムの起源・構造・機能』
日時：2024年9月13日（金） 13時～17時
場所：京都大学人文科学研究所本館大会議室
13時～13時10分 趣旨説明
『近現代中国と読書の政治──読書規範の論争史』に対して
13時10分～13時35分 大澤 聡（近畿大学）
13時35分～14時 鈴木将久（東京大学）
『中国共産党の神経系──情報システムの起源・構造・機能』
14時～14時25分 林 載桓（青山学院大学）
14時25分～14時50分 丸田 孝志（広島大学）
14時50分～15時10分：休憩
15時10分：著者からの応答、討論
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日時：令和6年10月23日（水）14:00-16:00
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