Sociomusicology

Ethnomusicologists are researchers who study music as a cultural phenomenon, and although much of ethnomusicological research addresses cont...

On Sunday I attended the 48th annual Osaka prefectural wind band competition (48回大阪府吹奏楽コンクール) in Minoh, Japan. As expected, the bands there ...

Below is a link to an interesting report just released from the Pew Research Center entitled “Forty Years After Woodstock, A Gentler Gen...

On July 21, the technology company Apple “disclosed its first quarterly decline in iPods sold” as discussed in Arik Hesseldahl’s provocat...

This partial eclipse was visible from Japan at around 11am today. Many people took a short break to observe it, a chance that only comes on...

Yesterday in Kyoto was the Yamaboko Junko parade of the Gion Matsuri , which is one of Japan’s three most famous festivals. The origins of ...

According to a recent story by Dave Itzkoff in the New York Times , Alexander Vedernikov, the “chief conductor and music director of the Bol...