Professor

HOSOKAWA Shuhei

Current Research
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Education:

2006 - present: Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2004: Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1995: Toyota visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan(spring term)
1996-2004: Associate Professor, Tokyo Insitute of Technology
1988-1991: Assistant, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

Musicology, Japanese-Brazilian culture

Music culture in modern Japan, Popular music

modernization, popular music, popular culture, Japanese immigratioin

1998: Karaoke Around the World. Global Technology and Local Singing (co-edited with Toru Mitsui), London-New York: Routledge.

2004: “The Atomic Overtones, the Primitive Undertones: the Sound Design of Godzilla”, Philip Hayward (ed.), Off the Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema, Sydney: John Libbedy, pp.42-60.
2003: “Speaking in the Tongue of the Antipode: Japanese-Brazilian Fantasy on the Origin of Language”, in Jeffrey Lesser (ed.), Searching for Home Abroad. Japanese-Brazilians and Transnationalism, Durham and London: Duke University Press; “From Lima to Koza: Diamantes and the Blurred Identity of Okinawan-Peruvian ‘Reverse Migrants’”, in Steven Loza (ed.), Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects Past and Present, Department of Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology University of California, Los Angeles, pp.321-34.

1999-2002: Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (C)(2), “Kindai nihon ni okeru seiyou ongaku bunka no shogeki to taishu ongaku no keisei” (The Impact of Western Music Culture and the Formation of Popular music in Modern Japan)