Project: Chinese Music History
Published: March 11, 2013
We of Rock in China and Music-China.org are rolling out
a new project: It is our aim to map and document the complete
history of Chinese music online. Therefore we are inviting institutes, organisations, universities, professors, teachers and students to join in and support us. The reason for this project is the same reason that led us to start with Rock in China 9 years ago: Currently there is no overall comprehensive and detailed website about the historical development of Chinese music. And we want to change this and create a free public domain online reference. Independent from the topic of rock music we are going to look at traditional music, folk music, Chinese opera, Tang Dynasty music and many other Chinese music related topics. As we have expanded our online wiki into
semantic web last November and received
over 2 million page viewsin respond to that, we believe that we have create the right tool landscape to realize our aims.
Aboveare two PDF documents which we are distributing. One showing a brief summary of the project and the other document giving a comparison between the intents of Music-China.org and Wikipedia – the other major public domain knowledge base everyone is thinking about when talking about humankind’s online knowledge. There is a distinct difference in the intent of both wikis and working on this project with Music-China.org is more benefitial (Wikipedia prefers short, comprehensive articles without the level of detail that we intend to generate).
How can you help us? Help can be joining in on creating and editing of relevant online articles in our wiki together with other interested users. Help can be searching for copyright-free sources, media, photos and texts that can be used for our articles. Help can be also promotion of this project, announcing it online and establishing contacts with other interested parties.
This project is intended to start in April 2013, but account registration is already available. Everyone who is actively helping is going to be mentioned on our project page with his/her user name and will also be mentioned as contributor in our project status newslets.
I hope that you can join our project, either as individuals or as representatives of any of your affiliated organizations. We are open to all ideas, suggestions or critical comments and will definitely support in terms of account creation, introduction to wiki works and other topics.
Invitations have been issued to the University of Aarhus, the University of Heidelberg,DianMo Sinology Student Newspaper of Leipzig,Kulturgut China,Hamburger China-Notizen, theChina Media Project at theJournalism & Media Studies Centre (The University of Hong Kong),Das Reispapier, theEuropean Seminar in Ethnomusicology, theDepartment of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at the University ofIndiana, theUniversity of Wien, theChinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) (), theAssociation for Chinese Music Research, theSociety of Asian Music, theInternational Insitute of Asian Studies, theCentre of Chinese Studies (SOAS),CHIME, theCentre of Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge, theDepartment of the History of Art of the University of Yale and theDepartment for East Asia Languages and Literatures of the University of Yale.
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