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Lecture by
Visiting Professor of Music from Hirosaki University
Dr. Tadahiko
Imada, visiting Distinguished Professor of Music from Hirosaki University,
Japan, will present a lecture titled “Sound and Semiotics: A Post-colonialist
View of Music.” In the lecture Dr. Imada will compare basic concepts of
European classical music and Japanese music. He will discuss how musical
absolutes exist only within the music of a particular culture, and that these
absolutes are not cross-cultural, thus not universal. This is an important
concept in music education, particularly in Japan, where many music educators
believe that European classical music is absolute and universal.
Born in Tokyo, Tadahiko Imada is an associate professor in the Faculty of
Education at the University of Hirosaki in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan, teaching
music education based on cultural studies and post-structuralism. He holds a
Bachelor of Music degree from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. He received
his M.A. from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver where he studied as a
recipient of a Government of Canada Award, and his Ph.D. from the University of
British Columbia. Dr. Imada’s publications appear in many academic journals in
North America, Australia, Sweden, Korea and Japan. Together with R. Murray
Schafer, he is co-author of A Little Sound Education. Prior to joining
the faculty at Hirosaki University, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at
the Centre for Advanced Studies in Music Education, the University of Surrey
Roehampton in London, United Kingdom.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, November 19, at 8:00 pm in the
Harriet Fulton Theatre in the Fine Arts Building. The lecture is free and open
to the public. The audience is invited to a reception for Dr. Imada following
the lecture in the Fine Arts Building Gallery.
Dr. Kevin
Lambert, Professor
Chair,
Department of Music
Director of
Choral Activities
Fine Arts 102
The University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, TN
38238, USA
731.587.7402
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