WEAI welcomes Miki Kaneda, who is a visiting assistant professor in Columbia University's Department of Music. Dr. Kaneda's research focuses on transcultural crossings and the entanglements of race, gender, power, and colonial residues in experimental, avant-garde and popular music in the 20th and 21st centuries. Trained in musicology and ethnomusicology, she has published on … [Read more...]
December 16 Event: “The Many Worlds of Yamaguchi Yoshiko:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the December 16, 2015 event “The Many Worlds of Yamaguchi Yoshiko.” The event was a multidisciplinary mini-workshop exploring the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko (1920–2014), a Japanese actress, singer, and politician whose remarkably resilient career spanned multiple culture industries, ethnic identifications, and strategic … [Read more...]
