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New Directions in Chinese Music Research

Multi-disciplinarity, In-betweenness, and Engagement*

by Jonathan P. J. Stock (Author)
10 Pages
Open Access
Journal: Asian Musicology Volume 34 Issue 1 Publication Year 2025 pp. 11 - 20

Summary

This talk identifies prospects for Chinese music studies in the contemporary era as we collectively develop a multi-disciplinary future that is academically valuable, incisive, and inclusive of researchers from contrasting linguistic, societal, and intellectual backgrounds. I present a view of Chinese music studies as a meeting point for scholars who represent positions and perspectives that are inherently “in-between” (between disciplines; between research consultants and readerships; mediating historical, cultural, or linguistic gulfs; etc.), sometimes multiply so. This suggests an explicitly “messy” reality, in which we actively build bridges through cooperation, cross-reading, translation, and consultation. In such a situation, we need to shift continuously from phases of more individual enquiry toward moments of shared focus and back again, sustaining common points-of-reference and the benefits of flexible and diverse responses to newly arising or newly rediscovered concerns. I outline selected concrete steps that we might take in strengthening our “in-betweenness,” which significantly includes greater translation from Chinese to English (and other languages), and I offer a rationale for providing enhanced attention to co-research and co-authoring as ways of producing engaged music research alongside members of musical communities for global readerships.

Details

Pages
10
DOI
10.3726/JAM341_11
Open Access
CC-BY
Publication date
2025 (March)
Keywords
Chinese music “in-between,” translation cooperation multidisciplinary
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Jonathan P. J. Stock (Author)

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