About the Author:
Noriko Manabe is Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University. She has been conducting field research on the Japanese antinuclear movement since 2011 and on Japanese hip-hop, reggae, and EDM scenes since 2005. She was previously a ranked analyst researching the internet, media, and videogame industries at JP Morgan in Tokyo. She holds a PhD in Music from CUNY Graduate Center with concentrations in ethnomusicology and music theory.
Review:
Winner, John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2017
"In a creative, interdisciplinary study, Manabe connects spatial theory and musical analysis to a sociological argument about political protest. . . The book and accompanying website, which presents footage from the protests, are wonderful teaching resources, and they will also change how we think about performance and social change. . . This timely book reminds us of the spaces of possibility, community, and hope possible through mobilization, creativity, and music." --Hall Prize Committee
Honorable Mention, Alan Merriam Book Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016
"The committee was in awe of the scope, depth, and risk-taking of the author's research-- at demonstrations and festivals, and with both indie and major label recordings musicians and producers; and in cyberspace. Her command of policy and its legal implications was as strong as her expert performance ethnography and music analysis. This study teaches us a great deal about the techniques of messaging, and the ways music breaks through the walls of official and unofficial censorship."--Merriam Prize Committee
"[Manabe] was able to see the protests from the inside and make a very fine-grained analysis of the role of music in them. . . the analysis ofthe spaces of contention can be extended to other forms of cultural dissent seen in recent protests, both in Japan and around the world."--Wesley Sasaki-Uemura, University of Utah, in Japanese Studies
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