Special Seminar with Dr. Marié Abe
(Associate Professor of Music, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University)
On Resonances of Chindon-ya:
Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan,
(Marié Abe, Wesleyan University Press:2018)

This is a great opportunity to have a seminar with Dr. Marié Abe (Associate Professor of Music, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University), the author of Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan, Wesleyan University Press:2018 and to hear about her book, Japanese music culture in relation to space, her ethnographic methodology and her own practices as a musician. If you are interested, please join us. All welcome.

DATE: 25th June 2019 (Tue.)
TIME: 17:00-18:30
VENUE: Lecture Room 3, Senju Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts (1-26-1, Senju, Adachi-ku, Tokyo)

SPEAKER:
Dr. Marié Abe (Associate Professor of Music, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University)

CHAIR:
Yoshitaka Mori (Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts)

Organized by Graduate School of Global Arts (GA) and Department of Musical Environment and the Creativity (MCE) Tokyo University of the

Free Admission. No pre-booking necessary. English only: No translation available.

Marié Abe Profile:
Marié Abe is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, and an affiliated faculty at the African Studies Center and American and New England Studies Program at Boston University. Her recent book, Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan (Wesleyan University Press, 2018), is an ethnographic exploration of the politics of space and sound, affect, and Japanese popular performing arts. Other research interests include cultural advocacy, ritual music in Bali and Thailand, the accordion and immigrant communities in California, anti-nuclear movement and music in Japan, anti-U.S. military movement and music in Okinawa, and afro-futurism in the United States.
A recipient of a Faculty Fellowship at the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College (2013-2014), during the 2018-19 year she will be a fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. Before coming to Boston University, Marié taught in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and in the Department of Music and Asian Studies Program at UC Berkeley.
Marié is also interested in public ethnomusicology. She has co-produced the NPR radio documentary “Squeezebox Stories” (2011), which tells stories from Californian immigration history using the accordion as a common trope.
As an active performer and improviser of the accordion and piano, she performs and records with artists from the United States, Japan, and beyond. She is also a member of the Boston-based Ethiopian groove collective Debo Band (Sub Pop/Next Ambience), which has been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, and NPR.
Marié holds an MA and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor degree in sociology, anthropology, and ethnomusicology from Swarthmore College.