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Joseph S.C. Lam, Professor, Department of Musicology, School of Music

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Gagaku (Japanese court music); Minshingaku; Historiography of Asian musics; Japanese, Chinese, Korean music

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., Musicology, Harvard University, 1988
  • MFA, Ethnomusicology, National Tokyo University of Fine Arts & Music, 1978
  • BA, Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1975

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • "The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in Confucian China." In Gender and Text in Pre-Modern China, Korea, and Japan: The Making and Unmaking of Confucian Worlds, edited by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush and Joan Piggot. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, in press.
  • ''Music! Oh Music! 'Does It Mean No More Than Bells and Drums?': Theories and Practices of Musical Confucianism." In On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Temple of Confucius, edited by Thomas Wilson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, in press.
  • "Chinese Music: An Integrated Approach."' An essay in a collection of papers on Chinese history and culture, in review.
  • "Confucian Ceremonial Music." In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, in press.
  • "East Asian Court Musics in Historical and Cultural Perspectives." Commissioned by Encyclopeida Einaudi Della Musica, edited by Jean-Jacque Nattiez, in press.
  • "Scholarship and Historical Sources of Chinese Music, Pre-1911." In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, in press.
  • "Huizong's Dashengyue, a Musical Performance of Emperorship and Officialdom." forthcoming.
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