The Legacy of Indigenous Music

Yu-hsiu Lu, an ethnomusicologist, is among the leading researchers in the field of indigenous music in Taiwan. She is the editor of the indigenous music section in the Encyclopedia of Taiwan Music, a curator of indigenous performances, and a publisher of indigenous music CDs and monographs. In addition, she has recently expanded her research focus to include minority music in Southwest China. She also specializes in the iconography of music. Oskar Elschek, an ethnomusicologist, has done much to influence the course of ethnomusicological research in Eastern Europe, and in connection with the political and ideological transformations of 1989–91, his efforts were of singular importance in the rapprochement between scholarly communities in Western and Eastern Europe. His primary contributions have been to the study of folk music in Slovakia, the Carpathians, and the Pannonian Basin of East-Central Europe; to instrumental folk music; and to the emergence of systematic musicology as an international field of research. In addition to his extensive publications, he has produced numerous documentary films, ethnographic videos, and audio recordings. He has focused considerable attention on the history of European folk music scholarship and ethnomusicology, and his monographs on the theories and methods of modern systematic scholarship have since become standard works. In 1997, Elschek received the Herder Prize for his lifetime contributions to ethnomusicology.

Stage Performance and Music Inheritance of Taiwan’s Indigenous People: A Case of Series Concerts “Sounds from Across Generations”.- “Imagined” Indigenous Music as Materials in Music Education in Taiwan (1950-2000).- Musicking as a Way of Connecting with the Ancestral Home: Preserving and Inventing Traditions in Papulu, Taiwan.- Fate and Value of Musical Traditions in a Globalising World.- Re-sonating Voices, Sounds, and Memories: The Repatriation of 60-year-old Field Recordings from Sagada, Mountain Province in Northern Philippines.- Study of Polyphonic Music of National Minorities through the Historical Perspective.- The Indigenous Music of Sarawak and its transmission over the last 60 years with a special focus on the music of the Kenyah and the Lun Bawang.- Minority versus majority - phrase or reality?.- Indigenous People and Traditional Music in the Historical Context of the Czech Lands.