Category: Japan

Christine Yano on "Singing Black Tears: An African American Prodigal Son in Japan" (Nov. 14)

October 31, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

The Fall 2011 Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series presents:

Christine Yano (Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Singing Black Tears: An African American Prodigal Son in Japan

Monday, November 14, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology
701C Dodge Hall
Columbia University Morningside Campus read more »

An Introduction and Demonstration of Satsumabiwa: A Japanese Tradition of Recitation to Lute Accompaniment

November 9, 2008 by jmukai

An Introduction and Demonstration of Satsumabiwa: A Japanese Tradition of Recitation to Lute Accompaniment
November 13, 5pm
701C Dodge Hall

This event will showcase music performer Charles Marshall and introduce participants to the sounds of the Satsumabiwa.  This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University.

A Survivors' Music Manifesto: On the Singing of Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women'

April 17, 2008 by EthnoAdmin

Sponsored by the Department of Music
Please note the 5PM start time is one hour later than many of our previous events.

Josh Pilzer is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawa'ii and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on Korean and Japanese folk and popular singing and the experience, memory, and memorialization of traumatic events in East Asian modernity. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation, about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology?s Charles Seeger Prize in 2001; his articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2006), and elsewhere.