It is exciting
to now be participating in the XVIII World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama,
Japan, following some teaching for Yokohama National University. Yokohama is a fascinating city that served as a center of westernization
from the mid-nineteenth century onward, and it continues to be a globally significant hub of innovation (see above photo of the city skyline, which I took yesterday). This conference, with the theme of “Facing an Unequal
World” has more than 6,000 participants from all throughout the world, and more
than 60 of the paper presentations address some aspect of music from a
sociological perspective. I am serving as Chair and Discussant for a session
entitled “Sociological Approaches to Western Music in Japan”. The session
features two quite interesting papers by Japanese scholars: Musicology in Post-War Japan: German Influence and
Social Context, by
Naomi MIYAMOTO, and “Japanese” Approaches to the Music of Frédéric Chopin, by Yasuko SHIBATA.
UPDATE:
Due to a program change, I also served as Chair of a session on Sociology of
Art in Japan:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/webprogram/Session4114.html
In Yokohama, I have also been
meeting with various academic presses that seem very interested in
possibilities for several future books that I am either already writing or intend to produce. I am especially eager to secure a
contract for the book I am currently editing, Translation, Education, and Innovation: Proceedings of the 25th
Anniversary Conference of the Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean
Studies. https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/webprogram/Session4114.html
Who will publish
it, and what about the other books I am developing?: Brill, Springer, Palgrave-Macmillan,
Routledge? We will see . . .
Links for more
information:
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