Professor

Department of Music

Ochanomizu University
2-1-1 Otsuka
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112

TEL: (03) 5978-5281
FAX: (03) 5978-5282

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, French, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• ART, ART HISTORY, LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
  arts exchange; bunraku; dance; music; performing arts; presenting the performing arts; shamisen; traditional dance; traditional music; traditional theater
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  arts policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  cultural exchange programs; food culture; Japanese abroad

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor, Dean, Faculty of Letters & Education, Ochanomizu University, 1972-94.

IN US: 1987-1988 - visiting professor; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Tradition and its Future in Music (co-editor) (Mita Press, 1991); "The ATPA Project in Retrospect," Music in the Dialogue of Cultures: Traditional Music and Cultural Policy (F. Noetzel, 1991); "Intertexuality in Japanese Traditional Music," The Empire of Signs (Benjamin, 1991); "Le timbre dans la musique japonaise," Le timbre: metaphore pour la composition (Bourgois, 1991).