Class 1:
Introduction to Course Content and Class Regulations
Mehl, Margaret. 2024. “Introduction.” In Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert, 1-17. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Class 2:
Japanese Traditional Music
Malm, W. P., 2000. Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (New ed.). Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International.
Class 3:
Modernization of Japanese Music: After the Meiji Restoration (1868)
Eppstein, U., 1994. The beginnings of Western music in Meiji era Japan. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen.
Galliano, L., 2002. Yōgaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.
Class 4:
Songs of Karayuki-san (Japanese Overseas Prostitutes)
Shishikura, M. 2022. “Lullaby, Travel, Nostalgia: Intersectional Soundscapes of Migrant Prostitutes in Southeast Asia.” In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, ed. Matusky, Patricia, and Felicidad Prudente, 137-142. Tainan: Tainan National University of the Arts.
Warren, James Francis. 2003. “Hardship in the Village.” In Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870–1940, 183-197. Singapore: NUS Press.
Class 5:
Japanese Music after the War and during the Japanese Economic Miracle
Nagahara, H., 2017. “The Invention of Popular Songs.” In Tokyo Boogie-woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents, 18-65. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Shamoon, Deborah. 2013. “Recreating Traditional Music in Postwar Japan: A Prehistory of Enka.” Japan Forum. 26(1): 113-138.
Class 6:
Oral Reports 1
Class 7:
Japanese Music around Asia, and Beyond
Fornäs, Johan. 1994. “Karaoke: Subjectivity, Play and Interactive Media.” Nordicom Review 15(1): 87-103.
Shishikura, M. 2019. “Nostalgia in Motion: Transition and Transformation of a Japanese Enka Song in East and Southeast Asia.” In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, ed. Matusky, Patricia, and Wayland Quintero, pp. 18-23. Sabah: Sabah Museum.
Class 8:
Week 8. The Birth of Kayokyoku and J-pop Music
Atkins, E. Taylor. 2001. “The Soundtrack of Modern Life: Japan’s Jazz Revolution” In Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan, 45-92. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Yano, Christine Reiko. 2003. “Inventing Enka: Definitions, Genres, Pasts.” In Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song, 28-44. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Class 9:
J-pop in the Twenty-first Century
Novak, D., 2013. “Sonic Maps of the Japanese Underground.” In Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, 64-91. Durham: Duke University Press.
Oe, Hiroko. 2025. “Global Reach of Japanese Kayokyoku and K-Pop: A Comparative Study through the Lens of Cultural Psychology, Focusing on Modesty, Holism, and Spirituality.” International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 15(3): 1382-1392.
Class 10:
Music of Minorities in Japan
Yoneno-Reyes, Michiyo, Masaya Shishikura and Hugh De Ferranti. 2023.
“Unsilent Voices: Music, Minorities, and Scholarship in Japan’s ‘New Immigration Era’” In Unsilent Strangers, ed. Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes, Masaya Shishikura and Hugh De Ferranti, 1-32. Singapore: NUS Press.
Otake, T. 2005. “Music as Weapon: Ainu Musician Fights for Cultural Survival.” Asia-Pacific Journal. 3(7). doi:10.1017/S1557466005002408
Class 11:
Zainichi People and Their Music Activities
Koo, Sunhee. 2024. “Drumming to Be One, Drumming to Be Different: Ethnicity, Nation, and Cultural Identity of Zainichi Koreans in Japan.” Asian Ethnicity 26 (2): 278–295.
Shin, Hyunjoon. 2009. “Reconsidering Transnational Cultural Flows of Popular Music in East Asia: Transbordering Musicians in Japan and Korea Searching for ‘Asia’” Korean Studies 33: 101-123.
Class 12:
Oral Reports 2
Class 13:
Music Festivals of Japan, a Local Diversity of Japanese Music and Dance
Chiya, Amos. 2024. “Harmonizing Visiting Performers’ Motivations and Community Revitalization at a Rural Island Music Festival.” International Journal of Event and Festival Management 15(3): 416–433.
Howard, K. 2020. “Traditional Japanese Music in Contemporary Times.” General Music Today 33(3): 52-57.
Class 14:
Music Culture of Okinawa
Gillan, Matt. 2012. Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-Making in Yaeyama and Okinawa. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Roberson JE. 2014. “Songs of War and Peace: Music and Memory in Okinawa.” Asia-Pacific Journal 12: 173-195.
Class 15:
Music Culture of Ogasawara
Shishikura, M. 2023. “Doing Music: Community Making through Music and Dance of the Ogasawara Islands.” In Unsilent Strangers, ed. De Ferranti, Hugh, Masaya Shishikura and Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes, 118-146. Singapore: NUS Press.
Shishikura, M. 2017. “Songs for Distance, Dancing to Be Connected: Bonding Memories of the Ogasawara Islands.” In Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild, ed. Kirsty Gillespie, Don Niles, and Sally Treloyn, pp. 219-250. Canberra: ANU Press.
Class 16:
Oral Reports 3
Workshop on Final Paper
Final Paper Due Date:
Introduction to Course Content and Class Regulations
Mehl, Margaret. 2024. “Introduction.” In Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert, 1-17. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Class 2:
Japanese Traditional Music
Malm, W. P., 2000. Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (New ed.). Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International.
Class 3:
Modernization of Japanese Music: After the Meiji Restoration (1868)
Eppstein, U., 1994. The beginnings of Western music in Meiji era Japan. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen.
Galliano, L., 2002. Yōgaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.
Class 4:
Songs of Karayuki-san (Japanese Overseas Prostitutes)
Shishikura, M. 2022. “Lullaby, Travel, Nostalgia: Intersectional Soundscapes of Migrant Prostitutes in Southeast Asia.” In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, ed. Matusky, Patricia, and Felicidad Prudente, 137-142. Tainan: Tainan National University of the Arts.
Warren, James Francis. 2003. “Hardship in the Village.” In Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870–1940, 183-197. Singapore: NUS Press.
Class 5:
Japanese Music after the War and during the Japanese Economic Miracle
Nagahara, H., 2017. “The Invention of Popular Songs.” In Tokyo Boogie-woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents, 18-65. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Shamoon, Deborah. 2013. “Recreating Traditional Music in Postwar Japan: A Prehistory of Enka.” Japan Forum. 26(1): 113-138.
Class 6:
Oral Reports 1
Class 7:
Japanese Music around Asia, and Beyond
Fornäs, Johan. 1994. “Karaoke: Subjectivity, Play and Interactive Media.” Nordicom Review 15(1): 87-103.
Shishikura, M. 2019. “Nostalgia in Motion: Transition and Transformation of a Japanese Enka Song in East and Southeast Asia.” In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, ed. Matusky, Patricia, and Wayland Quintero, pp. 18-23. Sabah: Sabah Museum.
Class 8:
Week 8. The Birth of Kayokyoku and J-pop Music
Atkins, E. Taylor. 2001. “The Soundtrack of Modern Life: Japan’s Jazz Revolution” In Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan, 45-92. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Yano, Christine Reiko. 2003. “Inventing Enka: Definitions, Genres, Pasts.” In Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song, 28-44. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Class 9:
J-pop in the Twenty-first Century
Novak, D., 2013. “Sonic Maps of the Japanese Underground.” In Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, 64-91. Durham: Duke University Press.
Oe, Hiroko. 2025. “Global Reach of Japanese Kayokyoku and K-Pop: A Comparative Study through the Lens of Cultural Psychology, Focusing on Modesty, Holism, and Spirituality.” International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 15(3): 1382-1392.
Class 10:
Music of Minorities in Japan
Yoneno-Reyes, Michiyo, Masaya Shishikura and Hugh De Ferranti. 2023.
“Unsilent Voices: Music, Minorities, and Scholarship in Japan’s ‘New Immigration Era’” In Unsilent Strangers, ed. Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes, Masaya Shishikura and Hugh De Ferranti, 1-32. Singapore: NUS Press.
Otake, T. 2005. “Music as Weapon: Ainu Musician Fights for Cultural Survival.” Asia-Pacific Journal. 3(7). doi:10.1017/S1557466005002408
Class 11:
Zainichi People and Their Music Activities
Koo, Sunhee. 2024. “Drumming to Be One, Drumming to Be Different: Ethnicity, Nation, and Cultural Identity of Zainichi Koreans in Japan.” Asian Ethnicity 26 (2): 278–295.
Shin, Hyunjoon. 2009. “Reconsidering Transnational Cultural Flows of Popular Music in East Asia: Transbordering Musicians in Japan and Korea Searching for ‘Asia’” Korean Studies 33: 101-123.
Class 12:
Oral Reports 2
Class 13:
Music Festivals of Japan, a Local Diversity of Japanese Music and Dance
Chiya, Amos. 2024. “Harmonizing Visiting Performers’ Motivations and Community Revitalization at a Rural Island Music Festival.” International Journal of Event and Festival Management 15(3): 416–433.
Howard, K. 2020. “Traditional Japanese Music in Contemporary Times.” General Music Today 33(3): 52-57.
Class 14:
Music Culture of Okinawa
Gillan, Matt. 2012. Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-Making in Yaeyama and Okinawa. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Roberson JE. 2014. “Songs of War and Peace: Music and Memory in Okinawa.” Asia-Pacific Journal 12: 173-195.
Class 15:
Music Culture of Ogasawara
Shishikura, M. 2023. “Doing Music: Community Making through Music and Dance of the Ogasawara Islands.” In Unsilent Strangers, ed. De Ferranti, Hugh, Masaya Shishikura and Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes, 118-146. Singapore: NUS Press.
Shishikura, M. 2017. “Songs for Distance, Dancing to Be Connected: Bonding Memories of the Ogasawara Islands.” In Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild, ed. Kirsty Gillespie, Don Niles, and Sally Treloyn, pp. 219-250. Canberra: ANU Press.
Class 16:
Oral Reports 3
Workshop on Final Paper
Final Paper Due Date: