A book review is presented for Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen, authored by Michaela Mross, by Junko Oba.
Author Biography
Junko Oba, Associate Professor of Music at Hampshire College, holds a B.A. from International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Wesleyan University, where she trained as an ethnomusicologist and sound recording archivist.
She teaches ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music theory, and Asian studies courses. Her research interests include traditional and contemporary Japanese music cultures; performative identity politics in Asian diasporas, especially in Brazilian expatriate communities in Japan; national and nationalized identity performances in the trans- and post-national world; music and collective memory construction; and organology and music instruments building. As a musician, she trained to perform piano, koto (Japanese long zither), and jiuta shamisen (Japanese long-necked lute).
Oba, Junko
(2024)
"Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen,"
Yale Journal of Music & Religion:
Vol. 10:
No.
2, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1323
