Academic Position
- Research Associate, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda Univesity
- Lecturer, Tokyo Zokei University, Saitama Institute of Technology
- Lecturer, Saitama Institute of Technology
Research Interests
- Art (Music) : Experimental Music, Jazz Music, Folk Music, Classical Music
- Anthropology : Experience, Tuning, Learning and Improvisation, Earth (Erde)
Modernity, Sociocultural Change
- Area : America (Cuba), Asia (Japan, South Korea)
Thesis
- "Succession Process in the Dynamics of Transnational Folkloric
Music"
M.A. Thesis (University of Tokyo, Anthopology)
- "An Introduction to the Street Music Study"
M.A. Thesis (Joetsu University of Educaion, Pedagogy)
- "Songs in Daily Life"
B.A. Thesis (Kunitachi College of Music, Music)
Awards & Honors
Main Published Papers
- "A Man Possessed by Musical Instrument: An Anthropological Note on Mutual Relations of “Objects”"
Bulletin of the Faculty of Human and Social Studies, Saitama Institute of Technology 13 31-41 2015
- "Toward an Anthropology of Art of "Becoming": Reflections on Two Caces in Latin America"
Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies 19 101-117 2014
- "Social Change in Contemporary Cuba (2) : Survival Strategy of the Nation and the People " Journal of World Affairs 9 102-117 2014
- "Social Change in Contemporary Cuba (1) : From Strategic Culture of the United States" Journal of World Affairs 7・8 101-115 2014
- "Tradition/ Modern, Convergence of Arts: An Anthropological Perspective on Experiencing Sound" Culture and Representation 9 22-49 2013
- "Nonverbal Communication with Respect to "Performing Art Value": A Case Study in the Meaning of "NONGAK" in South Korea" Next Generation of Social Sciences and Humanities Research 5 296-315 2009
- "The Street Music in Tokyo: Creation and Transformation of Urban Soundscape" Soundscape 5 27-34
Misc
- Book Review: "Yamada Yoichi, Music and Body: Resounding through the Being-in-the-World (2008)" 57(2) 111-112 2012
- (Translation) Kunu-NAM "The Contest of the Folk and Arts-ization" Colloquium Folklore Society of Japan 847 web 2010
- (Translation) Sujin-CHO "Cultural Heritagization of Folk and Globalization" Colloquium Folklore Society of Japan 847 web 2010
- "A Study on the Process of Improvisation in Jazz" Essays of Musicology, HEISEI 13 with Graduate of JOETSU University of Education
Conference Activities & Talks
- "Shared Experience" of Music: a Case Study from the
Practice of “Classical Music” in Cuba International Symposium "Comparative Reflexivities" PD/PhD Workshop Hitotsubashi University 16 Nov 2014 (en)
- "Unas Experiencias del Sonido: desde la Visión de los Músicos Experimentales
hacia la Música Folklórica en la Sociedad Moderna" "Sala Fernando Ortiz" Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de la Musica, Cuba. 28 Jan 2014
- Concierto Comentario "Cantar: como Raizes de la Música" Museo de Artes Decorativas, Cuba. 23 Nov 2013 (es)
- "Generation of Classical Music in Society in the Modern Era: On "Art-like" Special Issue: Art and Anthropology, Contemporary Anthropology Workshop 85, University of Tokyo. Jun 2012
- Commentator, “Record and Memory via Considerations of Things”. East Asian Anthropology workshop 31, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Mar 2012
- "Experience and Body of Becoming Together Through Music", The Society for Research in Asiatic Music 62, Kyoto University of Education. Oct 2011
- "Rethinking "Orality"" Workshop in East Japan with The Musicological Society of Japan 1, Tokyo University of the Arts. Apr 2011
- "What is the Meaning of Differences Created by Transnational Music?" Transnationality of Anthropology and Civil Society, National Museum of Ethnology Seminar Encouraging Young Researchers, National Museum of Ethnology. Nov 2010
- Interpreter, International Workshop "Cultural Heritage and Folklorism" Folklore Society of Japan 847, SEIJYO University. Jan 2010
- "Succession Process in the Dynamics of "Transnational" Folkoric Music" Workshop in KANTO Area with Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, TOYO University. Mar 2010
- "Current Inheritance of the Performing Arts -- A Case Study of PUNGMUL in Urban South Korea" Association for Korean Culture 34, The University of Tokyo. Mar 2010
- Introduction to Yonho-HO's Essay "Saving and Tradition of Folk Drama as Intangible Cultural Heritage" Research Meeting of Team(B) with Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, The University of Tokyo. Jan 2009
- "Toward "Performing Art Value" of Intangible Cultural Heritage --the case of NONGAK in South Korea" Academic Forum for Nest Generation, Soul University. May 2008
- "What is the street music?" The Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music 16, Tokyo University of the Arts.
- "Creation and Transformation of Urban Soundscape" The Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music 14, DAITO University of Culture.
Research Grants & Projects
- Representation of "Pleasure": SHIKOHIN Culture of Popular Music in Havana, SHIKOHIN Study Project, Project year(s): FYApr 2015 - FYOct 2016
- Studies on the Transformation of Artistic Experience: Body and Elementary Music Education in Modern Cuban Society The Shibusawa Foundation, Project year(s): FYMar 2013 - FYMar 2014
- Tradition and Modern on "Art like situation" The University of Tokyo: Global studies program, Project year(s): FYOct 2012 - FYJan 2013
- Nonverbal Communication with Respect to "Performing Art Value" RISONA Foundation for Asia and Oceania, Project year(s): FYMar 2009 - FYMar 2011
- Research Assistant: Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Project year(s): FYApr 2008 - FYMar 2010
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