Lecture Series on the Silk Road - Music in Central Asia: The Uyghurs and Xinjiang

Conducted in Cantonese

The rekindled interest in the Silk Road as a trope for performing Chinese identities over the past decade or so has brought enormous attention to the Uyghur, who are Central Asian Turkic Muslims residing in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang. The series of three talks seeks to listen closely to the voices of the Uyghur by exploring music and other aspects of traditional and modern Uyghur performing arts.

20 Dec 2017

The Sound of “Good-at-Singing-and-Dancing”: Exoticism in Modern Chinese Music

Demonstration on Erhu: Tung Tsz Ching

3 Jan 2018

Uyghur Music and Its Central Asian Styles

Demonstration on dutar (Uzbek): Eugene Leung

10 Jan 2018

The Minority Sound in Modern Chinese Cinema

Speaker: Dr Chuen-Fung Wong

Chuen-Fung Wong studies and writes about the music of the Uyghur, who are Central Asian Turkic Muslims in northwest China and Central Asia. His publications concern the interaction of ethnicity, exoticism, and modernity in minority performing arts of China. He teaches courses on world music, Chinese music, and ethnomusicology at Macalester College, where he is Associate Professor and Chair of Music. Chuen-Fung completed his undergraduate music degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and PhD degree in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is editor and co-author of Listening to Chinese Music (2009) and The Chinese Soundscapes (anticipated 2018).

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Lecture Series on the Silk Road - Music in Central Asia: The Uyghurs and Xinjiang

DATE

VENUE

PRICE

20.12.2017 (Wed)
19:30

03.01.2018 (Wed)
19:30

10.01.2018 (Wed)
19:30

AC2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

$50

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DATE

20.12.2017 (Wed)
19:30

03.01.2018 (Wed)
19:30

10.01.2018 (Wed)
19:30

VENUE

AC2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

PRICE

$50

BUY NOW

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10% off for each purchase of 4-9 standard tickets, 15% off for 10-19 standard tickets, 20% off for 20 or more standard tickets.

Lecture Series on Culture of the Silk Road Package Discount

For each purchase of standard tickets for the lecture series, the following concession applies: 10% off for each purchase of 2 lectures, 15% off for each purchase of 3 lectures.

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Each lecture will run for about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

The programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.  The presenter reserves the right to change the programme, speaker and demonstrator.