Cross-Cultural Musicology from Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Nancy November is Professor of Musicology at the University of Auckland. Her research examines music and culture in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to chamber music, historiography, and the politics of canon formation. She also works on higher-education pedagogy and decolonial research methodologies, including Pacific and Indigenous approaches to knowledge-making.

• IntroductionPart I: Theories1. Reflections on Complexities in Contemplating Global Music History, 2. Alternative Histories of Twentieth-Century Music: On synchronization and entanglement as historiographical methods, 3. Mediterranean Voices: Music History in Today’s Plural Societies, 4. Asia as Method: Early Twentieth-Century Asianism and the Writing of Music History, 5. Overcoming Asymmetry: Repositioning East Asian Musics, 6. Cross-Colonial Counterpoint: Korean and Taiwanese Music in Transimperial Entanglement, 7. Nationalism or National Indifference?: Western Music Historiographies in JapanPart II: Practices8. Computational Methods and Approaches for a Global Music History, 9. Real and Imagined Musical Journeys: Historical Performance, Voyages,and Crossover Projects, 10. Life History of Objects: The Case of a “Scene in the Principal Chinese Theatre, San Francisco” , 11. Cross-cultural interactions of different eras: Fieldwork and music education spaces in contemporary India , 12. Getting Your Own Back: Cross-Cultural Movement of Intangible Valuables in Aboriginal Australia, 13. Current currents in ethnomusicology: Aukilani, Pasifika, Aotearoa New Zealand decantations