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南華大學民族音樂學系專題演講 Nanhua University 時間：2009/3/4（三）13：40-15：00 DATE:2009/MAR/04(Wed)13:40-15:00 演講者：法蘭克?伯納德（中國文化大學藝術研究所專任助理教授） SPECHER: Bernède René, Franck, Pierre 題目SUBJECT : ETHNOMUSICOLOGY of INDIAN HIMALAYAS At the crossroads of religious anthropology and ethnomusicology, this lecture is concerned with the phenomenon of trance rituals in the Central Indian Himalayas. It deals with the gharau-ka jagar, a domestic spirit possession ceremony led by bards of the untouchable cast in Kumaon in the Indian state of Uttaranchal. Accompanied by audiovisual media, this presentation will focus on the performative aspects of the ritual and its religious context. In contrast to other forms of possession in the Himalayas, where processes of depersonalization of the medium appear often to be spontaneous, music and dance in the jagar ceremony, rather than being mere ornaments, appear as constitutive elements of the rite itself. Here, the musical discourse is involved both in the activation and the resolution of the chaos of existence. Creators and regulators of a subjective time, musicians and dancers transport their audiences into mythical time. In a context in which music is inseparable from its symbolic representations, this exploration will highlight how its technical elements interact, directly or indirectly, with the activity of mediums, living icons of the ritual. French-born Franck Bernede is Assistant Professor in Baroque Music, Cello and Ethnomusiocology at the Chinese Culture University (Taipei, Taiwan). Apart from his career as a concert cellist, Dr.Bernede has conducted extensive ethnomusicological fieldwork studies in the mid-mountain regions of the Himalayas. His special research focus has been the Bardic traditions of the Central Himalayas (Far Western Nepal and Uttaranchal) as well as in the Kathmandu Valley. He earned his PhD in 2004 Phd in Ethnomusicology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris with a thesis on The jagar in Kumaon. Mus