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Podcast: Ethnomusicology Today
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Japanese Chindon-ya and Anti-Nuclear Power Protests with Marié Abe
Category: Education
Duration: 00:21:02
Publish Date: 2017-11-27 23:00:00
Description: In this episode we talk with Marié Abe, whose article “Sounding Against Nuclear Power in Post-3.11 Japan: Resonances of Silence and Chindon-ya” was recently published in the journal, Ethnomusicology. Abe explores the Japanese musical advertisement practice chindon-ya and how it has become politicized as the sounds of anti-nuclear street protests after the 3.11 nuclear disaster. Abe examines the tensions between chindon-ya’s role in street protests and the socially mandated practice of the silence of jishuku. Marié Abe is assistant professor of music at Boston University.
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