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Hao Huang – Music, Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music

 Professor Huang published the following:

· “From Passive ‘Vessels’ of Traditional Culture to Symbolic Cultural Markers: The Geetharines in Mauritius,” by D. V. Ballgobin and Hao Huang, co-authored book chapter in Women in the making of Mauritian History (University of Mauritius Press), ed. Vijaya Teelock, pp. 121-128;

· “Beethoven In 2021: Why His Music Continues To Matter During The Covid-19 Pandemic,” article and performance of Beethoven Piano Sonata 0p. 109, feature page posted on Serenade, the major classical music site in India, February 2021;

· “COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Environment in the Asia Pacific,” Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, April 2021;

· Book chapter in-press, “What Beethoven Meant in China, 1900-1949: Music, Ideology and Power,” in Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements: Transnational Politics and Culture, 1890–1950 (Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies), ed. J. Cho, May 2021.

He gave the following presentations and performances:
· Guest distinguished panelist, Berklee College of Music American Roots Music Program:  “Billie Holiday Birthday Symposium,” April 2021;
· February 2021 – Featured speaker in Academic Minute, “Tradition and Environmentalism in Bali: An Interdisciplinary Perspective,” February 2021;

· “Tradition and Environmentalism in Bali,” The Academic Minute, Inside Higher Ed.;

· 51 Faculty Recital, The Mei Duo, April 2021.
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Professor Huang was  narrator and background researcher for “Blood on Gold Mountain” – a story from the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre podcast, Episode 1 released March and April 2021, available on all major podcast directories. A future broadcast of entire podcast series  will air in May 2021 on KSPC-FM for Asia-American/PI Heritage Month.

The podcast received the following press coverage:

· Press Play with Madeleine Brand on KCRW National Public Radio;

· Cinema Junkie with Beth Accomando on KPBS NPR;

· Interview in the OC Register, Press-Enterprise and the Southern California News Group;
· Interview published by the Washington Post, April 2021;
· Inside Podcasting Inside.comɱٱ;

· Center for Asian American Media (CAAM);

· Interview with Inside the Issues with Alex Cohen, on Spectrum News 1, American cable news television channel founded by Time Warner Cable;

Professor Huang and his creative team received a $15,000 UCLA Chancellor’s Arts Initiative Award to present a live performance of “The Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre: 150-year Commemorative Performance and Dialogue” in Los Angeles on October 24, 2021.

Professor Huang’s original play about the 1900 San Francisco Bubonic Plague was selected as “Top 5 Winning Plays of the Year” for Pomona College Theater Department’s Annual 10-Minute New Play Competition (Play Fest).

 

 

 

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