Keywords
Oral history
Music literature
Submitted : 2024-07-01
Accepted : 2024-07-16
Published : 2024-07-31
Abstract
Oral history, which collects historical materials by means of oral interviews, is an important auxiliary means for ethnomusicological research. Marked by the First Symposium on Oral History of Music in 2014, the academic community has launched a series of discussions and elaborations on its concepts, methods, norms, meanings, and other dimensions, and a series of academic achievements have been born. In this paper, we will combine relevant theses to explain how music oral history as contemporary history can achieve “intertextuality” in ethnomusicological research, emphasize its humanistic attributes, and summarize our reflections on the basis of existing academic experiences.
References
Zang Y, 2017, We Have Lived Too: With Oral History as Evidence—On the Use of Oral History in the Field of Musicology. Journal of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, (01): 24–29.
Cao XS, 2002, Discussion on the Application Value, Work Standard and Interviewing Procedure of Oral History. Chinese History of Science and Technology, (04): 64–71.
Botelotu, 2012, Performance, Text, Context, Inheritance—A Study of the Oral Transmission of Mongolian Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press, Shanghai.
Ding X, 2017, Talking About Several Problems of Oral Music History—Based on the Dialogue with Professor Liang Maochun. Journal of Wuhan Conservatory of Music: Huang Zhong, 2017(3): 22–31.
Yang X, 2014, The Practice of Qinology in Oral History Writing—An Example of the Production of “Oral History of the Qin in Shuzhong.” Chinese Musicology, 2014(1): 77–82.
Qi K, 2006, Historical Exposition: Historical Study of Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Central Conservatory of Music, 2006(3): 85.
Qian M, 2019, Oral History as a Study of Living History. Zhejiang Social Science, (10): 141–150 + 161.
Cai J, 2011, Music Culture and Geographic Space: Research on Regional Music Culture in the Past Thirty Years. Music Research, (03): 6–18.
Xue Y, 2012, Into History Through the Field: On the Ways and Methods of Historical Research in Chinese Musical Anthropology. Music and Art (Journal of Shanghai Conservatory of Music), (01): 6 + 75–83.
Ma J, 2016, Oral History Research in the Threshold of Music Education (Next). Chinese Music Education, 2016(3): 29.
Zhang BY, 2013, The Three-Level Positioning of Insider and Outsider, Subjective View and Objective View. Journal of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, 2013(2): 46.