Conference presentations

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Past invited talks

Past conference presentations

• “Can Music Ever Be Truly Transnational? The Case of Japanese Techno in Europe.”
  • IASPM International, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2019
  • Association for Asian Studies, Denver, CO, Spring 2019.
    • Organizer and Chair, Panel, Transnational Flows in Japanese Popular Music: Cultural and Political Dialogue between Japan and the West
  • American Musicological Society, San Antonio, TX, Fall 2018. Short version in roundtable on East Asian music.
  • Cultural Typhoon, Kyoto, Summer 2018.
• “Singing and healing in post-atomic Japan: The hibakusha (bomb survivor) chorus of Nagasaki.”
  • Society for Ethnomusicology, Albuquerque, NM, Fall 2018.
• “Rapping to a different beat: Flow, language, and aesthetics in non-duple and irregular hip-hop tracks.”
  • Society for Music Theory, San Antonio, TX, Fall 2018.
• Roundtable, “This is What Democracy Sounds Like: Sound, Music, and Performance at the Women's March on Washington and Beyond”
  • Society for Ethnomusicology, Denver, CO, Fall 2017.
• “Alternative Public Spheres: Musical Reframing of Political Positions in a Networked Asia”
  • Session Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology, Denver, CO, Fall 2017.
• “Musical Narratives of Atomic Holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
  • International Musicological Society, Tokyo, Spring 2017.
• “Music Education in Asia.”
  • Session Chair, International Musicological Society, Tokyo, Spring 2017.
• “Songs of Forgetting and Remembering: The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Popular Music in the Postwar Period.”
  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US), Cleveland, OH, Winter 2017.
• “‘Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays’: Music and Commemoration of the Atomic Bomb.”
  • Society for Ethnomusicology, Washington, DC, November 10, 2016.
• “Alternative Readings: Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Alright’ in Political and Analytical Context”
  • Society for Music Theory, Popular Music Interest Group, November 5, 2016.
• “Meters in Global Context.”
  • Session Chair, Society for Music Theory, November 4, 2016.
• “Musical Expressions of Atomic Holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
  • Roundtable, “Apocalypse, Ecomusicology, and Radical Listening,” AMS Ecocriticism Study Group, Vancouver, November 3, 2016.
• “Cyberspace, music, and participation in the Japanese antinuclear movement.”
  • Cultural Typhoon, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, July 3, 2016.
• “Music, Healing, and Commemoration of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings.”
  • Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, April 1, 2016.
    • Organizer and Chair, Panel, “Nuclear Trauma and Its Musical Responses”
• “Playing with Space: A Methodology for Analyzing Urban Space, Soundscape, and Performance Through Japanese Antinuclear Demonstrations.”
  • Society for Ethnomusicology, December 2015.
    • Organizer and Chair, Panel, “Sounds of Resistance in the City: Reclaiming Urban Space and History through Contentious Sonic Practices”
    • American Musicological Society, Popular Music Study Group, November 2015.
• “Typologies of Intertextuality in Recent Social Movements.”
  • Society for Music Theory, St. Louis, October 2015.
  • Rethinking Protest Music: The Sounds of Dissent, Princeton University, October 2015.
• “Protest through Nostalgia: Evocation of Childhood in Antinuclear Songs of Post-Fukushima Japan.”
  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Executive Conference, Sao Paolo, June–July 2015.
• “Atoms for Cuteness: Visualizing the Nuclear Past and Present through Children’s Culture.”
  • Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 2015.
  • American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December 2014.
• “A Typology of Intertextuality in Protest Songs.”
  • Intertextuality in Music Since 1900 Conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, March 2015.
• “Nuclear Childhoods: Nuclear Characters and the Antinuclear Movement.”
  • Child’s Play: Multisensory History of Children and Childhoods in Japan and Beyond. University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, February 27–28, 2015.
• “Urban Geography, Soundscape, and the Performance of Japanese Antinuclear Demonstrations.”
  • Hearing Landscape Critically Conference, Harvard University, January 2015.
• Atoms for Cuteness: Visualizing the Nuclear Past and Protesting the Nuclear Present through Characters
  • American Anthropological Association, December 2014.
• “Music in the Japanese Antinuclear Movement: Four Spaces, Four Tactics.”
  • Korea/Japan Music Symposium, Columbia University, November 21, 2014.
• “Music in the Japanese Antinuclear Movement: Four Spaces, Four Tactics.”
  • Columbia University, November 2014.
  • "Countering spirals of silence: protest music and the anonymity of cyberspace in the Japanese antinuclear movement"
  • Society of Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, November 2014.
• "Rock Under Censorship: Allegories, Metaphors, and Obfuscation in Antinuclear Records from Post-Fukushima Japan."
  • AMS/SMT Joint Annual Conference, Milwaukee, November 2014.
• "Online Radio: How Markets in Japan and the US Hear Things Differently." Roundtable, "Reflections on Mobile Music Studies."
  • Experience Music Pop Music Conference, Seattle, WA, April 2014.
• "The Evolution of Musical Style in Antinuclear Sound Demonstrations in Post-Fukushima Japan."
  • Asian Studies Conference Japan, June 2014.
  • American Anthropological Association Conference, October 2013.
  • Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, October 2013.
    • Chair, "Raising Voices, Reclaiming Spaces: Antinuclear Soundscapes in Contemporary Japan and Korea."
  • Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, October 2013.
• "Intertextuality in Antinuclear Hip-Hop Tracks in Post-Fukushima Japan."
  • Traveling Texts Conference, New York University, October 4-5, 2013.
  • Association of Asian Studies Conference, San Diego, March 21–24, 2013.
    • Organizer and Chair, "Straight Outta Nippon: Appropriation, Identification, Class Consciousness, and Political Resistance in Japanese Hip-Hop and Reggae."
• "Music in the Antinuclear Movement Post-Fukushima."
  • Build a Bridge:Popular Music(s), Collectivities and Social Movements, IASPM International Biennial Conference, Gijón, Spain, June 24-28, 2013.
• "Spaces of Protest: Tailoring Messaging Techniques in Antinuclear Protest Music Since Fukushima."
  • Changing the tune: Popular music and politics in the XXIst century, University of Strasbourg, France, June 7-8, 2013.
• "Methods in Researching East Asian Popular Culture."
  • Princeton University East Asian Popular Culture Conference, Princeton, NJ, April 27, 2013.
• "How Music and Musicians Communicate the Antinuclear Message." and
• "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Anti‐Nuclear Protest Music in Post‐Fukushima Japan"
  • 3.11 Virtual Conference: Looking Back to Look Forward, March 11–15, 2013.
• "Toward a Typology of Intertextuality in Protest Songs: Revolution Remixed in Antinuclear Songs of Post-Fukushima Japan."
  • American Musicological Society/Society for Ethnomusicology/Society for Music Theory Conference, New Orleans, November 2012.
• "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Music, Musicians, and Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Japan."
  • Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, July 15, 2012.
  • Experience Music Project Pop Conference, New York, March 25, 2012.
• "Representing Japan: Japanese Hip-Hop DJs, the Global Stage, and the Concept of a 'National' Style."
  • Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, June 30, 2012. Abstract (see p. 36)
  • Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, November 11–14, 2010.
    • Organizer and Chair, "Transcultural Soundscapes, Representations of Nation, and Interracial Performance in Japanese Popular Music."
• "'Instilling the National Spirit': Japanese School Songs During Wartime."
  • Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 17–19, 2011. Abstract (p. 70)
• "Localization and Globalization in Japanese Reggae/Dancehall."
  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music Biennial Conference, Grahamstown, South Africa, June 27–July 1, 2011.
  • Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 22–23, 2010.
  • Asian Studies Conference Japan, Waseda University, Tokyo, June 17–18, 2010.
  • Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 25–28, 2010.
  • Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Conference, Mexico City, November 19-22, 2009.
    • Organizer and Chair, "The Tropical in East Asia: Appropriation, Location, and Circulation of Caribbean and Island Musics in East Asia."
• "A Silenced Legacy: Songs Sung by Japanese Children During the Pacific War."
  • Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, March 31–April 3, 2011.
• "The Role of the Producer in Hip-Hop: An Ethnographic and Analytical Study of Remixes"
  • Oxford-Princeton Conference in Music Theory, Princeton, NJ, March 18–19, 2011.
  • Society for Music Theory, Indianapolis, November 4–7, 2010.
  • Music Theory Society of New York State Conference, John Jay College, New York, April 10–11, 2010.
• Respondent, Special Session on Concert Music in Japan.
  • Society for Music Theory, Indianapolis, November 4–7, 2010.
• "A Tale of Two Countries: The Impact of Smartphones and Online Radio on Listener Behavior and Corporate Strategies in the United States and Japan"
  • Experience Music Pop Conference, Seattle, April 15–18, 2010.
• "Evolution of Japanese Text-Setting in Western Musical Style."
  • Society for Music Theory, Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 29-November 1, 2009.
• Evoking the Mayan World: Symbolism in Alberto Ginastera's Cantata para América mágica."
  • Society for American Music Conference, Denver, CO, March 18-22, 2009.
• "The Evolution of Japanese Songwriting in Western Genres."
  • Organizer of panel, "The Shadow of Western Influence: The Impact of Western Practice on Musical Composition, Theory, Education, and Performance in Japan and Korea."
  • Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 24-28, 2008.

• “President’s Roundtable 2008: SEM and American Imperialism." Panelist: "A Japanese Perspective."
  • Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 24-28, 2008.
  • "The Evolution of Japanese Text Setting in Western Idioms."
    • "Music, Language, and Mind conference," Tufts University, Boston, MA, July 10-13, 2008.
  • "For Whom the Bell Rings: Differences in Use of Ringtones in Japan and the United States."
    • Cultural Typhoon, Sendai, Japan, June 28-29, 2008.
    • Digital Youth in East Asia conference, Temple University in Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June 21-22, 2008.
• “A Mulata’s Memory: Musical Mestizaje in the Characterization of Femme Fatales in Cuban Zarzuelas”

Use of devices from Verdi, particularly La Traviata, and Afro-Cuban techniques in depicting mixed-blooded heroines (mulatas) in Cuban musical theater. Social reasons for fascination with mulatas.

• International Musicological Society, Biennial Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, July 10-15, 2007.
• Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, International Conference, July 14-16, 2006, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• AMS-Greater New York, May 6, 2006, Princeton, NJ.
• Afro-Latino/Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, March 17, 2006, New York, NY.
• National Opera Association, Annual Conference, January 5-8, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-century Music, August, 2005, Sussex, UK.

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