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Faculty Bell Yung
Professor of Music 206 Music Building FieldsHistory and Theory of Chinese Music, Cantonese Opera, Cantonese Narrative Songs, Music of Qin, Chinese Ritual Music, Charles Seeger. TeachingPast teaching posts: the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of California at Davis, Cornell University Courses Taught Music of East Asia, Introduction to Ethnomusicology, Transcription and Analysis, Introduction to World Music, Graduate Seminars in Ethnomusicology, Chinese Performance Literature Honors/AwardsChiang Ching Kuo Foundation grant for a planning meeting to organize three interdisciplinary conferences on Chinese music (2004). Ford Foundation grant on a research project called "Music and Cultural Rights" (2003) Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), a two-year award to research into the Cantonese Opera "Princess Changping" (2000-02) Bei Shan Tang Foundation (Hong Kong) to support "Exhibition 2001: China's Musical Treasures" in 2001 in collaboration with the Research Institute of Music (Beijing) and the University Museum and Art Gallery (HKU). (2001). Mrs. Li Ka Shing Fund, University of Hong Kong, to support the Hong Kong University Chinese Chamber Ensemble for three years. (1999-2002) Hong Kong Arts Development Council to support facsimile printing of qin score by Master Tsar Teh-yun. (1999). Luis Cha Fund, University of Hong Kong, to support a Chinese music conference held in June 2000. (1998) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1996) NEH Grant for conference on Music in Chinese Ritual (1993) NEH Fellowship for University Teachers (1990) ACLS/SSRC Research Grant (1984) Selected Publications“Musicological Discourse and Graphic Imagination: Charles Seeger as Conceptual Artist,” in Festschrift to Commemorate the 70th Birthday of Prof. Yosihiko Tokumaru, special issue of Otyanomizu Ongaku Ronshu (2006): 89-106. “Tsar Teh-yun laoshi qinyi fengge chutan” [Preliminary study of musical style of Tsar The-yun], in Deyin Tongxun [Newsletter of Deyin Qin Society], 2005, pp. 53-60. "La musica nel teatro cinese" in Enciclopedia della Musica III: Musica e culture, pp. 889-924. Ed. Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore. (2003). "Ethnomusicologist at Work: East Asia and North America" in Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Vol. 10. Ed. Ruth Stone. New York: Routledge. (2002). Exhibition Catalogue: The Musical Arts of Ancient China, editor. University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong. (2001). Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology. First co-editor (with Helen Rees) and contributor. University of Illinois Press. (1999). Celestial Airs of Antiquity: Music of the Seven-String Zither of China. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions. (1997). Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context. First co-editor (with Evelyn Rawski and Rubie Watson) and contributor. Stanford University Press. (1996). Themes and Variations: Writings on Music in Honor of Rulan Chao Pian. First co-editor (with Joseph Lam) and contributor. Co-published by the Music Department, Harvard University and the Institute for Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (1994). Cantonese Opera: Performance as Creative Process. Cambridge University Press. (1989). Selected Papers Read“Voices of Hong Kong: the Reconstruction of a Performance in a Teahouse” at the 39th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Vienna. July 4-11, 2007. "Hearing with the Mind and Touch: the Private Music of the Chinese Qin" at the world congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium. August 1-7, 2002. "A Blind Singer's Tale: fifty years of life and work in Hong Kong" at the annual meeting on Chinese Oral and Performing literature, San Diego. March 4, 2004. PerformancesRecital on the seven-string zither, Emory University, March 24, 2003 Recital on the seven-string zither, Bowdoin College, Maine, March 29, 2002 Recital on the seven-string zither, University Museum, University of Michigan, November 7, 2002 audio and Video RecordingsNaamyam Songs of Love and Longing, a set of two compact discs published by the Chinese Music Archive, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Bailey Record Company. (2007) A Blind Singer's Story: Fifty Years of Life and Work in Hong Kong, a 50-minute DVD. Hong Kong Museum of History (2004) Qin Music on Antique Instruments. 67-minute Compact Disc. Music Department, University of Hong Kong. (1998). ActivitiesDirector of Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh (2002-06) Lectures (since 2003, selected) at the University of Maryland at College Park; Princeton University; UCLA; Aula de Música, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. Chair and discussant for the panel "Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture" at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 3-7, 2004. Discussant at the conference "Experimenting Chinese Theater" in Taipei, March 12-14, 2004. ProjectsMusic and Cultural Rights Critical edition of the translation of the Cantonese Opera "Princess Changping" Monograph on Blind Singers of Southern China |
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