Chinese Music
Speaker: Andrew Jones
Email: afjones@berkeley.edu

Andrew F. Jones teaches modern Chinese literature and culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. He's the author of two books on Chinese music: Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music and Yellow Music: Colonial Modernity and Media Culture in the Chinese Jazz Age.

This session will trace the history of modern Chinese music, and explore how we can learn to understand modern and contemporary China through its sonic cultures. We will begin the session by discussing the emergence of a modern Chinese popular music in the colonial metropolis of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. This hybrid sound, indebted to jazz, Hollywood musicals, and local folk idioms, was largely replaced by the revolutionary music of the Maoist period after 1949. We'll examine the socialist and how it lives on in the Chinese rock and roll of the 1980s. Finally, we'll conclude with an audio tour of recent musical developments in mainland China and Taiwan.

LISTENING GUIDE and LYRICS
http://orias.berkeley.edu/2006/Jones.pdf

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The ORIAS 2005-6 working group will explore the field of ethnomusicology as a resource for internationalizing curriculum. The group is open to educators in all disciplines especially music, history, language and fine arts. We will approach music as an expression of culture and national identity, while at the same time considering ways to actively expose ourselves and our students to unfamiliar musical traditions that provide the "soundtrack" to world history.

• WHERE: 2223 Fulton Street 6th Floor, University of California, Berkeley (contact Michele for building entry code)
• WHEN: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Materials, coffee and lunch provided.
• Registration required. (Class limited to 25.)
• Working Groups are free and open to all K-14 educators and librarians

ORIAS Working Groups are established to provide professional development support for K-14 teachers with shared interests in international studies. The working groups provide teachers with the opportunity to extend their content knowledge by participating in seminars with University scholars; meeting with colleagues to share resources and experiences; and working independently or collaboratively on classroom materials with ORIAS staff.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) and the Bay Area Global Education Program (BAGEP) at the World Affairs Council of Northern California. This session was also co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies at U. C. Berkeley with funds from a Title VI grant from the U. S. Department of Education.

For further information contact Michele Delattre at ORIAS: 510-643-0868 or orias@berkeley.edu