Chinese Australian Whispers

Ep 5: Ting and music

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Dr Sophie Couchman and Dr Wang Zheng-Ting
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Chinese Music in Australia – Victoria

Wang Zheng-Ting composed and performed the music for this podcast. In this episode Sophie Couchman talks with him about his research as an ethnomusicologist and how being Chinese Australian has shaped his musical development.

Further reading:

  • Wang, Zheng-Ting, Chinese Music in Australia – Victoria, 1850s to mid 1990s, Melbourne: Australia Asia Foundation, 1997.
  • Wang, Zheng-Ting and Doggett, Anne, ‘Chinese music on the Victorian goldfields, Victorian Historical Journal, 78 (2), 2007: 170-186.
  • Wang, Zheng-Ting, ‘The Gangzhou Yueju Quyishe’ in Nicholas Ng (ed), Encounters: Musical Meetings Between China and Australia, Toowong, Qld: Australian Academic Press, 2012: 3-19.
  • Wang Zheng-Ting on Spotify.
  • 2016 National Folk Festival Concert performed by Wang Zheng-Ting and the Australian Chinese Music Ensemble at the National Library of Australia.

    • Featuring:

    • Dr Sophie Couchman, Professional Historian and Curator
    • Wang Zheng-Ting, Composer and Musician
    • Music composed and performed for the podcast by Dr Wang Zheng-Ting.
    • Final audio mastering by Nat Grant.
      • Full Transcript

      Transcript in progress. Available soon.

      This episode was created with in-kind support from the Museum of Chinese Australian History, the Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria, Dr Sophie Couchman and Nikolaus Yee.

      This project gratefully acknowledges the Local History Grants Program and Public Record Office Victoria, supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund.

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