We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Kerim Yasar, an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California who … [Read more...]
Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Kerim Yasar (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of … [Read more...]
“Movie Music of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Political Control and Artistic Creativity”
Discussion "Movie Music of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Political Control and Artistic Creativity" Zhang Shuo, Lecturer, Department of Music, Beijing Institute of Education Moderated by: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science Monday, April 16, 2018 International Affairs Building, Room 918 4:00 … [Read more...]
May 8 Event: “Pacific Overtures: A Panel Discussion About the Celebrated Musical:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the May 8, 2017 event "Pacific Overtures: A Panel Discussion About the Celebrated Musical and its 2017 Off-Broadway Revival." The event featured George Takei, actor and activist; John Weidman, librettist of "Pacific Overtures;" Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University; and David Hajdu, Professor of … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Miki Kaneda, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
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...]
