CATS Chinese Music Collections PODCAST SERIES

Podcast by Barbara Mittler, teaching Sinology and Transcultural Studies at the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg. She is currently working on a book on Chinese protest movements and the function of music, art and culture therein. Todays podcast is about female composer Wang Ying's set of intermezzi to Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth The passages played in the podca...

Today Odila Schröder will take us on a different “journey”, exploring the edges of what can be considered “Chinese” music. Since 2020 Odila has been part of a project, the China-School-Academy, writing teaching modules and providing trainings for German high school teachers. As part of that project she developed a module on Chinese music, essentially a “listening journey“, meant to engage students...

"Socialism is Good” 社会主义好, a Chinese Communist propaganda song from the 1950s was one of the most iconic and recognisable tunes before the Cultural Revolution. Welcome to the second episode of a two-part podcast with Tilen Zupan, a master's student in Transcultural Studies at the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg. Exploring the intricacies of the song's rec...

"Socialism is Good” 社会主义好, a Chinese Communist propaganda song from the 1950s was one of the most iconic and recognisable tunes before the Cultural Revolution. Welcome to the first episode of a two-part podcast with Tilen Zupan, a master's student in Transcultural Studies at the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg. Exploring the intricacies of the song's rece...

Yuri Sasaki is a Master student enrolled in Transcultural Studies at CATS Heidelberg and also in the Joint Degree Program with Kyoto University in Japan. This podcast is about the song “The East Is Red” which was a highly popular communist propaganda song. The four minute version played at the beginning of the podcast is from a 1964 7" vinyl (see link below). Links to the songs that are refer...

CATS Chinese Music Collections PODCAST SERIES The Library of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University holds an extensive collection of musical treasures—recordings, scores, ephemera, and secondary literature on Chinese music. The CATS library brings together the CHIME Collection for Chinese Music Research—a large collection comprising everything from ethnographic to...

Podcast by Odila Schröder, a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University, on the music produced in support of collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Odila wrote her PhD thesis, entitled “Treasonous Repertoires: Performing Collaboration and Musical Life in Japanese-Occupied Beijing” under the umbrella of the ERC project “Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia” led by Jere...