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SUMMARY:Musical Encounters and Repertory in Japan 1860–1880: Transnation
 al flows in multicultural spaces - Thomas Cressy (George Kingsley Roth Res
 earch Fellow in Social Anthropology\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Lindsay Friday
DESCRIPTION:In 1854\, Japan ended two-hundred years of isolationist polici
 es and opened to global trade. As a result\, the Shōgun built segregated 
 ports and rented them to the influx of diplomats and traders arriving from
  China\, Europe\, North America\, and Australia. Such migrants brought mus
 ical traditions\, repertory\, and material culture into new multicultural 
 spaces. I ask: what did the Japanese and foreign residents hear and how di
 d they interpret such foreign sounds? What repertory and musical tradition
 s were involved in these cultural encounters? What does the concert repert
 ory and material culture that arrived in the ports tell us about music cir
 culating globally in the 1860–1870s? Based on my reading of hitherto une
 xplored concert sources\, from the multinational communities of Japan\, th
 is paper offers some clues.\n\nI focus on musical instances of cultural en
 counter and community-level interactions within the ports of Nagasaki and 
 Yokohama. I show the movement of concert repertory and musicking practices
 \, and how contemporary sources discussed them. Repertory\, I argue\, reve
 als a range of national and social-class dynamics informing the reception 
 process of the ‘Western music’ that had circulated into Japan. Histori
 cally situated Japanese\, European\, and North American auralities will be
  explored\, as well as the ways music was used to both foster community an
 d create ‘Others’ within multicultural spaces.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 2\, Faculty of Music\, West Road
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