Online symposia ‘Resonating Across Oceanic Currents: A Maritime History of Popular Music in and from Japan, 1920s-1960s’
Dates: Saturday, 2 October and Saturday, 23 October
Time (both dates): 7am-10am (CDT) / 8am-11am (EDT) / 1pm-4pm (BST) / 8pm-11pm (AWST) / 9pm-0am (JST&KST)
Organisers: Yuiko Asaba (University of Huddersfield), Amane Kasai (Waseda University)
Venue: Zoom Webinar
*Pre-registration required:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gt9pUJFsQ3ap3p6NMW251g (2 October 2021)
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7G6Y1doSRM6VQdeKPh3bSw (23 October 2021)
Language: English
For abstracts, visit https://raocmus.com
PROGRAMME:
Saturday, 2 October
Chair: Hiromu Nagahara (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussant: David R. M. Irving (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies)
Presenters:
Karl Neuenfeldt (Murdoch University) ‘The Maritime Labour-Music Interface in Australia's Historic Pearling Industry: Songs of Longing and Belonging’
Hugh de Ferranti (Tokyo Institute of Technology) ‘Music and the Japanese of ‘Monsoon Australia’, 1920s-1960s’
Yuiko Asaba (University of Huddersfield) ‘On “Latin America” and Japanese Tango Musicians in Manchuria: A Transcultural History, 1935-1945’
Amane Kasai (Waseda University) ‘Dubbed in Patois: Musical Mimicry Involving the Chinese in Wartime Japanese Popular Songs’
Masao Nishimura (Kwansei Gakuin University) ‘When Will You Return: The Trans-border Tangos of 'Herijun Zailai'’
Saturday, 23 October
Chair: Robert Adlington (University of Huddersfield)
Discussant: Yusuke Wajima (Osaka University)
Presenters:
Shin Aoki (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) ‘Bringing Music Back: American Military Personnel and Their Souvenirs of Japan, 1945-1958’
Sungmin Kim (Hokkaido University) ‘Sukiyaki and Camellia Girl: Excluded and Smuggled Japan-ness in Post-war South Korea’
Michael K. Bourdaghs (The University of Chicago) ‘Transpacific Rehabilitations: Yamaguchi Yoshiko's 1950 Sacramento Concert and Post-Internment Japanese American Cultural Memory’
Marié Abe (Boston University) ‘Decolonial Modal Alliances from Okinawa? Listening to Imaginative Geographies of Yamonouchi Seihin’
For further information, please kindly visit the following links:
- https://raocmus.com/
- https://www.waseda.jp/inst/wias/news-en/2021/08/30/8046/?fbclid=IwAR0Ywq_HxlfC-cj6KV2477qpcVMSMBhPJ0GK_CUN9yUNQ3_mhpv3IsWg6fU