Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950

Alison McQueen Tokita is Guest Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts, and Adjunct Researcher, Monash University, Australia.Joys H. Y. Cheung is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University, Republic of China.

"This book presents a fascinating overview of the genre’s introduction to East Asia and Australia. In 20 chapters, readers encounter various cultural and artistic struggles to locally adapt a more or less alien musical style in terms of form, content, and culture. Almost every chapter treats this musical challenge in terms of modernity and identity. Commendably, the authors seek to avoid the narrative of East–West division, focusing instead on the interconnectedness of the art song globally... The book will interest specialists and students of musical styles and their intercultural transmission. It will be even more intriguing for those interested in questions of identity, (post-)colonialism, and modernity in East Asia and Australia." Anne Rodier, Asian Studies Review

• Chapter 1. Art song as lyrical modernity in colonial and postcolonial contexts: listening to each other’s songs JOYS H.Y. CHEUNG & ALISON TOKITAChapter 2. The rise of Japanese art song MOTOMI TSUGAMIChapter 3. Art song and musical/cultural identities in interwar JapanLUCIANA GALLIANOChapter 4. Implications of poetic form for Japanese art songsYUKO KUSAKABEChapter 5. Conflict and synthesis of modern and traditional Japan in Hashimoto Kunihiko’s art songs LASSE LEHTONENChapter 6. Nagai Ikuko and the "Movement for Singing in Japanese" MOTOMI TSUGAMIChapter 7. The birth and transformation of Korean art song KYUNGCHAN MINChapter 8. National identity and colonial modernity in gagok: Korean art songs of the Japanese Colonial Period MEEBAE LEEChapter 9. Metre and rhythm in Lee Sangkeun’s songs HERMANN GOTTSCHEWSKIChapter 10. Korean art song composers caught between Japan, South Korea and North Korea KYUNGBOON LEEChapter 11. A brief history of modern Chinese art song CHEN YONGChapter 12. Composition, commentary and collegiality in the translated modernity of early Chinese art song JOYS H.Y. CHEUNGChapter 13. Proved foundations with pentatonic inflections: "Longing for Home", the first art song of Huang Zi and Wei Hanzhang STEPHEN M. JONESChapter 14. "I should have my own personality": Identity negotiation in Tan Xiaolin’s art songs ARTURO IRISARRI IZQUIERDO & HON-LUN HELAN YANGChapter 15. "Taiwanese Art Songs" and "National Languages": Lu Chuan-sheng’s Art Songs of the 1940sDIAU-LONG SHENChapter 16. Competing voices in Colonial Taiwan: Art song as historical problem CHIEN-CHANG YANGChapter 17. Singing Chinese art song in Taiwan: the life journeys of two China-born vocalists YU-JEN HUANG & TZU-CHIA TSENGChapter 18. From singer to composer: the art songs of Koh Bunya / Jiang Wenye LIN-YU LIOUChapter 19. National identity and Australian art song 1901–1950ANNE-MARIE FORBESChapter 20. A transnational perspective on musical modernity: the songs of Linda Phillips and Chen Tianhe ALISON TOKITA