Performance and Cultural Studies Lecture Series 2021

表演與文化研究講座系列 2021

• Lecture 1: What Makes a City Cultural? 第一講: 《城市如何文化？》

  Guest speaker: Louis YU (Senior Arts Administrator)

  5 March 2021 (Fri), 15:30 – 17:00 (Hong Kong Time)

  課堂重溫: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSTkLPGmqVk

  《城市如何文化？ 》

  什麼是文化？當我們描述一個城市的文化時，我們指的是什麼？
  這講座從香港的經驗出發，用國際上的例子，看社會上每個人的記憶、信念、創造和日常生活，怎樣建構出一個城市的文化。

  What makes a city cultural?

  What is culture? What do we refer to when we describe a city’s culture?
  Using the Hong Kong experience and overseas examples, this lecture explores how everyone’s belief, everyday life, creation and memory shape the culture in the city.

  茹國烈，香港資深藝術行政人員。

  茹先生擁有逾30年藝術行政管理經驗，於2010至2019年任職於西九文化區管理局表演藝術行政總監。
  2007至2010年間出任香港藝術發展局行政總裁，曾在香港藝術中心工作13年，並於2000至2007年間出任總幹事。
  於2019年1月，在他的帶領下，第一個西九大型表演 藝術設施戲曲中心順利開幕。而第二個西九表演藝術設施自由空間亦已經於2019年6月開幕。
  茹先生於2019年6月完成西九文化區的工作。赴英國倫敦政治經濟學院，進修城市研究。

  Louis Yu, Senior arts administrator from Hong Kong.

  Mr. Yu has over 30 years of arts management experience. He worked for the West Kowloon Cultural District from 2010 to 2019 as the Executive Director, Performing Arts.
  Before that he was the Chief Executive (2007-2010) of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Executive Director (2001-2007) of the Hong Kong Arts Centre.
  Under his leadership, the first major venue – the Xiqu Centre was open in January 2019 and the second performing arts venue – the freespace was open in June.
  Mr. Yu completed his work in June 2019 and started his study in the LSC Cities in the London School of Economics.

• Lecture 2: Sound as Music as Culture 第二講: 《聲音-音樂-文化》

  Guest speaker: Frederick LAU (Chair and Professor, Department of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

  26 March 2021 (Fri), 15:30 – 17:00 (Hong Kong Time)

  課堂重溫: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okfOqkYgUdo

  《聲音-音樂-文化》

  音樂是一門很多學者都感興趣的學科。
  但是，他們的研究與路向和方法恰恰是與19世紀末歷史音樂學創始人吉爾多·阿德勒（Guildo Adler）所構想的截然不同。
  最初的研究集中在闡明歐洲古典音樂的風格和音樂語言結構，但現今音樂研究的觀點及取態已脫離以往集中在音樂語言和為藝術而藝術的枷鎖。
  本講座將探討近代音樂研究的發展領域及其對研究族群，文化和社會所作出的貢獻及意義。

  Sound as Music as Culture

  Music has long been a topic of interest for scholars in various disciplines.
  Their approaches however couldn’t be more different from what the founding father of historical musicology Guildo Adler had envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century.
  Initially focusing on style and structure of European classical music, the study of music has come a long way and now includes a range of approaches and perspectives.
  This talk focuses on recent developments in the study of music and its implication in and contribution to the study of people, culture, and society.

  劉長江是香港中文大學音樂系系主任，民族音樂學教授，及中國音樂研究中心總監。

  他的著作包括中國傳統及現代音樂的論述，中國音樂文化，地緣與身分認同問題，西方音樂現代化的演變，亞洲及太平洋音樂的遷移。
  劉氏是夏威夷大學出版社出版《亞洲及太平洋音樂與表演藝術》系列叢書的總編輯，回港前他曾任教于美國夏威夷大學馬諾阿分校和加州州立理工大學。

  Frederick Lau is chair and professor of Ethnomusicology and director of the Center for Chinese Music Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

  His scholarly interests include a broad range of topics in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures. Apart from publishing books and articles, he is editor of the book series entitled Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific.
  Prior to teaching in Hong Kong, he was professor of music and ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and California Polytechnic State University.

• Lecture 3: Hong Kong Cantonese Opera in Imagined Modernity 第三講:  《想像現代化中的粵劇》

  Guest speakers: YU Siu Wah (Adjunct Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University) and LI Siu Leung (Adjunct Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University)

  30 April 2021 (Fri), 15:30 – 17:00 (Hong Kong Time)

  The last hundred years of history of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong has been a story of syncretism in its interaction with modern social reality (that by definition, like it or not, for better or worse, means “already westernized”): from adapting European musical instruments, modern stories, and Euro-American movies in the early decades of the twentieth century, to European operatic aria style and digital stage technology a hundred years after. It is not that Cantonese opera was ahead of the other regional Chinese operatic forms in responding to the West, or pioneered in many “new” attempts. It is just that anything that goes, Cantonese opera practitioners take, for survival. In this talk we shall interrogate how Hong Kong Cantonese opera, in negotiating the ineluctable encroachment of (Euro)modernity that threatens traditional intangible cultural heritage of all kinds, has imagined its “modernity” in its creativity and production as a tactic of sustainability in modern society. We shall discuss musical and theatrical aspects of Hong Kong Cantonese opera’s “modern imaginations” in practice, and examine the efficacy of the many imaginative practices that would be effective, empowering, incomplete, futile, or failed.

  余少華

  哈佛大學音樂學博士，其研究範圍包括清代宮廷滿蒙音樂、中國戲曲、中國器樂及樂器、香港音樂、音樂與政治等；近年涉足國、粵、廈、潮語等方言電影音樂，積極推動香港音樂研究。 余氏自2013年起參與嶺南大學《中國戲曲志(香港卷)》等書編纂計劃，任主編，並為嶺南大學文化研究系及香港中文大學音樂系兼任教授。

  Yu Siu Wah

  He is the chief editor of the Hong Kong volumes of Chinese Opera Annals and Anthology of Chinese Opera Music, and Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and of the Music Department at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yu’s research interests include organology, instrumental music, Chinese music history, Chinese Music theatre, music of the Manchus and Mongols in the Qing court, popular music, movie music and cultural politics in the music of Hong Kong. He has also received training in nanyin, a form of Cantonese narrative singing.

  李小良

  嶺南大學文化研究系兼任教授、文化研究及發展中心研究員，曾任嶺大文研系主任、香港中文大學音樂系兼任教授。出版中、英文專書及論文包括戲曲與性別易服、古典戲曲、崑劇、粵劇、香港電影及流行文化、比較文學等範疇。文化公職包括民政事務局、康文署及演藝專業團體各類諮詢委員會成員。

  Li Siu Leung

  Currently Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University and Research Fellow of its Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Li Siu-leung was previously Head of Lingnan’s Cultural Studies, Adjunct Professor in the Music Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published on Chinese opera and transgender, Hong Kong film and popular culture, as well as comparative literary studies. Li has also served on various advisory committees of the HAB, LCSD, and professional performing arts organisations.

Moderator: Denise TANG (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University)

Organizer: Master of Cultural Studies (MCS) Programme, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

Enquiry：[email protected]

The event is supported by “Postgraduate Student Learning Enhancement Activities Funds, Lingnan University”