Joseph S C Lam
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 191805 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph S C Lam |
| PRENOMES | Joseph S C |
| SOBRENOME | Lam |
| ASSINATURA | LAM J S C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Kunqu
As the first comprehensive and scholarly book on kunqu written in English, Joseph S.C. Lam’s Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China , presents a holistic view of the 600-years-old genre which has recently been transformed into a vibrant world opera. Approaching kunqu from different perspectives, ranging from those of performers and producers to those of causal audience, dedicated connoisseurs, and scholarly critics, Lam describes …
Puzzling Out the Past
Puzzling Out the Past: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Bruce Zuckerman. Edited by Marilyn J. Lundberg; Steven Fine; and Wayne T. Pitard. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 55. Leiden: BRill, 2012. Pp. xvi + 334, illus. $245
Ci Songs From the Song Dynasty
Ci is a genre of Chinese poetry or song that has been continuously written, read, and/or performed since the late ninth century. In the last six or so centuries, however, the genre was more read as literature than sung as song. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, ci works are increasingly being sung as ancient songs ( gudai gequ ) with authentic or reconstructed melodies from the past. This development raises a web of questions about ci l…
Escorting Lady Jing Home
In 1960-61, the Northern Kunqu Opera Troupe of China (Beifang Kunqu Juyuan; hereafter, Beikun) createdEscorting Lady Jing Home(Qianli Song Jingniang;hereafter,Escorting),a masterpiece ofkunqutheatre that is still regularly performed and enthusiastically embraced by twenty-first-century audiences (Chen 2010). Dramatizing a journey that Zhao Kuangyin (926-976), the founder of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1125), allegedly took with Lady Jing,Escor…
Music and Masculinities in Late Ming China
This examination of music and masculinities in late Ming China (1572-1644), a turbulent time in Chinese history, consists of two parts. The first part introduces late Ming China, its masculine ideals and practices, and proposes a heuristic framework for analyzing available data; the second part employs the framework to analyze a selection of representative late Ming texts and visuals that illustrate music and masculinity negotiations of the time
Reading Music and Eroticism in Late Ming Texts
Numerous late Ming writings describe eroticism of that time with references to contemporary music. Reading these musical-erotic texts, one asks why and how late Ming words, music, and eroticism became interrelated, and what do their interrelationships inform us about their culture and society? One may also ask how did late Ming music express and catalyze erotic negotiations of the time. To stimulate discussions about the issues, this essay postul…
Male Bonding in Ming China
Making friends and making music are two fundamental activities through which people construct their personal identities and social relationships in their historical, cultural, and engendered times and spaces. To probe such activities as revealing facets of Ming history and culture, this essay presents three case studies of Ming men making music and bonding with male friends. To highlight the expressive, cultural, and social significance of music,…
On sacred grounds
The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines to local deities, and the altars of the mandarinate. Prominent among the official shrines were the temples in every capital throughout the empire devotd to the veneration of Confucius. Twice a year members of the educated elite and officials in each area gathered to offer sacrifices to Confucius, his disciples and the major scholars of the Confuci…
Zhang Ziqian
Zhu Quan
Zhu Zaiyu
China, People’s Republic of
Wu Jinglue
Guan Pinghu
Qin
Mourning in Late Imperial China
State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China
State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China
Lost Melodies Rediscovered, Recordings of the Kawakami Troupe at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Shadows in the Field
A Spiral Way
Ming Music and Music History
Ming China was a society of songs, dances, instrumental music, and operas. Ming emperors, scholar-officials, and commoners, male and female, produced and consumed a large variety of music, and left numerous descriptions of their music activities. Ming China, as interpreted and narrated in the twentieth century does not, however, appear to be musical at all. Major references compiled in the last two decades, such as the Dictionary of Ming Biograph…
Ritual and Musical Politics in the Court of Ming Shizong
Themes and Variations
The Rise of Cantonese Opera
Ming Music and Music History
Ming China was a society of songs, dances, instrumental music, and operas. Ming emperors, scholar-officials, and commoners, male and female, produced and consumed a large variety of music, and left numerous descriptions of their music activities. Ming China, as interpreted and narrated in the twentieth century does not, however, appear to be musical at all. Major references compiled in the last two decades, such as the Dictionary of Ming Biograph…
Analyses and Interpretations of Chinese Seven-String Zither Music
Trois modeles d'analyse concernent la musique qin chinoise (harpe a sept cordes) : 1) l'analyse traditionnelle des musiciens s'attache aux techniques, a la critique esthetico-morale ; 2) l'analyse « repertoriale » des erudits examine les contextes techniques, theoriques et historiques ; 3) l'analyse occidentale. L'etude de la Lamentation de l'imperatrice Chen montre que ces differentes methodes ne s'excluent pas, chacune apportant une approche sp…
Music from the Tang Court
Ancient Tunes Hidden in Modern Gongche Notation
Transcrivant 2 anciennes tonalites de musique chinoise traditionnelle cultivee (« Pusaman » et « Ruizhegu »), l'A. explique que cette musique a des caracteristiques distinctives, qu'elle est un melange de « musique classique » et de musique populaire et qu'elle a toujours su porter avec elle l'information historique qui permet d'identifier et de verifier ses tonalites originales. L'etude de la musique traditionnelle chinoise ne peut etre separee …
New Perspectives on Chu Culture during the Eastern Zhou Period
Analyses and Interpretations of Chinese Seven-String Zither Music
Trois modeles d'analyse concernent la musique qin chinoise (harpe a sept cordes) : 1) l'analyse traditionnelle des musiciens s'attache aux techniques, a la critique esthetico-morale ; 2) l'analyse « repertoriale » des erudits examine les contextes techniques, theoriques et historiques ; 3) l'analyse occidentale. L'etude de la Lamentation de l'imperatrice Chen montre que ces differentes methodes ne s'excluent pas, chacune apportant une approche sp…
There is No Music in Chinese Music History’
‘There is no music in Chinese music history.’ This paradox is often expressed by music scholars in Hong Kong, a modern metropolis in which Chinese and Western musics and music scholarship mingle and thrive. Highlighting the contrasts between traditional Chinese and contemporary Western views of music and music historiography, the paradox refers to the scholars' observation that Chinese music histories include few descriptions of actual music, and…
Themes and Variations
The yin and yang of Chinese Music Historiography
La musique ceremonielle de Confucius a ete jouee en Chine (Qufu) et a Taiwan (Tapei). Ces performances voulaient reconstituer la musique d'origine a partir de documents ecrits or des elements nouveaux se melent aux anciens. Les Occidentaux considerent les histoires de la musique chinoise comme subjectives et les paradigmes comme idiosyncretiques
Ritual and Musical Politics in the Court of Ming Shizong
Ming Music and Music History
Ming China was a society of songs, dances, instrumental music, and operas. Ming emperors, scholar-officials, and commoners, male and female, produced and consumed a large variety of music, and left numerous descriptions of their music activities. Ming China, as interpreted and narrated in the twentieth century does not, however, appear to be musical at all. Major references compiled in the last two decades, such as the Dictionary of Ming Biograph…
State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China
Lost Melodies Rediscovered, Recordings of the Kawakami Troupe at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Shadows in the Field
A Spiral Way
Zhang Ziqian
Zhu Quan
Zhu Zaiyu
China, People’s Republic of
Wu Jinglue
Guan Pinghu
Qin
Mourning in Late Imperial China
State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China
On sacred grounds
The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines to local deities, and the altars of the mandarinate. Prominent among the official shrines were the temples in every capital throughout the empire devotd to the veneration of Confucius. Twice a year members of the educated elite and officials in each area gathered to offer sacrifices to Confucius, his disciples and the major scholars of the Confuci…
Male Bonding in Ming China
Making friends and making music are two fundamental activities through which people construct their personal identities and social relationships in their historical, cultural, and engendered times and spaces. To probe such activities as revealing facets of Ming history and culture, this essay presents three case studies of Ming men making music and bonding with male friends. To highlight the expressive, cultural, and social significance of music,…
Reading Music and Eroticism in Late Ming Texts
Numerous late Ming writings describe eroticism of that time with references to contemporary music. Reading these musical-erotic texts, one asks why and how late Ming words, music, and eroticism became interrelated, and what do their interrelationships inform us about their culture and society? One may also ask how did late Ming music express and catalyze erotic negotiations of the time. To stimulate discussions about the issues, this essay postul…
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