Xiao Mei and Gisa Jähnichen (2023). Musical Bows and Zithers along the Great Silk Road. Berlin: Logos. (original) (raw)

2023, Xiao Mei and Gisa Jähnichen (2023). Musical Bows and Zithers along the Great Silk Road. Berlin: Logos.

The 28th ICTM Colloquium titled From Musical Bow to Zithers along the Silk Road was held on 1-2 December 2022, co-hosted by the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China. The Silk Road was already an important topic in the history of ICTM colloquia. This is the fourth colloquium on "Musical Instruments along the Silk Road" held by Shanghai Conservatory of Music after "Plucked Lutes of the Silk Road: The Interaction of Theory and Practice, From Antiquity to Contemporary Performance" (October 2016), "Double Reeds of the Silk Road: The Interaction of Theory and Practice from Antiquity to Contemporary Performance" (November 2018), and "Drums and Drum Ensembles of the Silk Road" (November 2020). The programme committee consisted of Xiao Mei (China), Pornprapit Phoasavadi (Thailand), Razia Sultanova (UK/Uzbekistan), Jasmina Talam (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Manfred Bartmann (Austria/Germany), Saule Utegalieva (Kazakhstan), and Gisa Jähnichen (China/Germany). The local arrangement committee for this colloquium consisted of some faculty members and students at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. This colloquium comprised presentations by 18 scholars from Lithuania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Malta, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany, the United States, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Canada and China: Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Arthur Borman, Chinthaka P. Meddegoda, Gisa Jähnichen, Palmer Keen, Long Fei, Han Mei, Hans Brandeis, Henry Johnson, Lana Šehović, Jasmina Talam, Xiao Mei, Cui Xiaona, Chu Zhuo, and Xiong Manyu. Five sessions dominated the programme: 1) Musical Bows and Zithers in Europe; 2) Southeast Asian Cases; 3) Regional Studies; 4) The Long Way to the Zithers; 5) The Musics and Ecology of Bowed Zithers in China and East Asia.