“Interest has been shown to research within music and memory for a long time, but during the last two decades, we have experienced a surging interest in sound’s significance in our everyday lives, its part in identity construction, and its relation to a number of different cultural and historical contexts. “At first, the objective is to take the sonic experience of the world seriously,” Andreas Steen says about the ‘Sounds of War’-project and elaborates: In this, Andreas Steen and his colleague Wulf Kansteiner examine ‘The Memory of World War II in Taiwan, East Germany, and Denmark, 1945-2015’, as the project is called, working with music, language, tones, and noise from the period. Later on, via a PhD-project, he examined the spreading of an international record industry in Shanghai of the time, and at present, focus is on the research project ‘Sounds of War’. Since then, Andreas Steen has made his enthusiasm for music – and in particular sound – his profession as professor and researcher at China Studies on Aarhus University.īased on modern Chinese history and the country’s early foreign connections, he was among the first to study the advent of rock music in China. Initially as a drummer in different bands and as a devoted collector of records.
It started in his youth with a deep interest in the world of music. Now he is examining how sound can give the Chinese – and western – history a dimension it so far has not had. By Jeppe Kiel Revsbech Through three decades, professor of China Studies Andreas Steen has been immersed in the music and the sound of one of the world’s most diverse countries.
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