Global Modernity / Cultural Regions. Comparing East Asia and Europe within Music Historiography

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Tobias Janz
• Subject Area: Musicology
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 289287236

The main goal of this project is to discuss suitable methods, topics, and practices for music historiography in the context of globalization. This project questions in particular how the construct of 'musical modernity' could be matched historiographically with the distinctiveness of regional music histories not only in Asia and Europe, but also within Europe. In a narrower sense, this project belongs to the scope of basic research within music historiography. From an interdisciplinary perspective it has strong connections with global history, transnational history, and also sociological theories of modernity and modernization. The idea is to conduct the basic research dialogically: Two workshops will provide the opportunity for a thorough discussion of the topic between two teams of colleagues from Germany, Austria and three Asian countries. Apart from the reflection on methodological issues, there will be individual case studies from a plurality of research areas in music history. The mid-term objective of the project aims at the consolidation and intensification of the bi-lateral cooperation between German and East-Asian communities in historical musicology. The project applicant has been Visiting Assistant Professor within an exchange program at the National Taiwan University in July/August 2013, and a participant at the Shanghai-Hamburg-Forum at the Fudan-University, Shanghai in April 2015. Furthermore, a joint contribution to the IMS-Conference in Tokyo (March 2017) is planned, and the findings will subsequently be published in English.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Taiwan
• Cooperation Partner: Professor Chien-Chang Yang, Ph.D.