Veronica Gaspar

Bio: Veronica Gaspar is an academic researcher from National University of Music Bucharest. The author has contributed to research in topics: Westernization & Intercultural communication. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.

History of a Cultural Conquest: The Piano in Japan

Abstract: Any short review of the penetration of European music into Japan and its enthusiastic appropriation calls for a different approach to the controversial question of acculturation The rapid growth in the pianois popularity in Japan, together with the implicit musical revolution, could also occasion a parallel with the similar process of acculturation which occurred in Eastern Europe (for instance the Romanian Principalities) Musical Westernization (including the institutional and educational reform) might, in contradicting the traditional local musical concepts, mirror a different perspective on intercultural communication and contemporary cultural education

Piano transductions: music, sound and noise in urban Taiwan

Abstract: While scholars have drawn attention to the production of space through sound, there has been less attention given to the interchange between multiple co-existing environments. This paper examines h...