TERADA Yoshitaka
National Museum of Ethnology (NME)
Department of Advanced Studies in Anthropology
10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita, Osaka 565-8511, Japan
Tel: (06) 6878-8327; E-mail: terada@idc.minpaku.ac.jp
Website: www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/staff/terada
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Cultural identity, power relationship, diaspora, minority, audiovisual ethnography,
museum representation.
EDUCATION:
1992
PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Washington (Seattle, USA)
1983
MA in Ethnomusicology, University of Washington (Seattle, USA)
1979
BA in General Studies, University of Washington (Seattle, USA)
1977
AA in Ethnic Studies, Shoreline College (Seattle, USA)
1974-76
Economics, Kobe University (Kobe, Japan)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2012-16 Professor and Director, Department of Advanced Studies in Anthropology,
NME
2008-12 Professor, Department of Cultural Research, NME
1998-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Research, NME
1996-98 Assistant Professor, Second Research Department, NME
AWARDS:
2013
2000
Best Longer Film Award, 3rd International Folk Music Film Festival
(Nepal).
Jaap Kunst Award (Society for Ethnomusicology)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (after 2000):
2015
“Fusion music in South India.” In This Thing Called Music: Essays in
Honor of Bruno Nettl, edited by Victoria Lindsey Levine and Philip V.
Bohlman, 433-446. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
2014
“The circular flow of South Indian music and dance.” In Music and
Minorities from Around the World, edited by Ursula Hemetek, Essica
Marks and Adelaida Reyes, 47-71. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing.
2008
“The rhythmic body in South Indian classical music.” In Ongaku suru
Shintai: Watashi heto Hirogaru Hibiki [Musicking and Body:
Resounding through the Being-in–the-World], edited by Yamada Yoichi,
227-247. Kyoto: Showado.
2008
“Temple music traditions in Hindu South India: Periya Melam and its
performance practice.” Asian Music 39(2): 108-151.
2008
Music and Society in South Asia: Perspectives from Japan (Senri
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2008
2005
2000
Ethnological Studies 71). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. 284pp.
“Tamil isai as a challenge to Brahmanical music culture in South India.”
In Music and Society in South Asia: Perspectives from Japan, edited by
Yoshitaka Terada, 203-226. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
“Performing auspiciousness: Periya Melam music in South Indian
marriage ceremony.” Wacana Seni 4: 103-138.
“T. N. Rajarattinam Pillai and caste rivalry in South Indian classical
music.” Ethnomusicology 44(3): 460-490.
AUDIOVISUAL PRODUNCTIONS:
2014
Voices of Distant Memories: South Indian Classical Music (multimedia
program)
2008
South Indian Hindu Weddings (28 minutes)
Basavanna: Folk Cow Theater of South India (34 minutes)
2007
South Indian Ritual and Music (multimedia program)
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
2013
“South Indian dance in Toronto.” 64th Annual Conference of the Society
for Research in Asiatic Music, Shizuoka University for Art and Culture
(Japan).
2013
“The global distribution and performance contexts of double-reed
instruments.” University of Madras (India).
2012
“A circulatory flow of Indian music and minority nationalism.” 7th
International Conference of the International Council for Traditional
Music ‘Music and Minorities’ Study Group. Zefat Academic College
(Israel).
2009
“Globalization and music: From linear to circular movements.” Public
lecture, 60th Annual Conference of the Society for Research in Asiatic
Music, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts (Japan).
2004
“Fusion music in South India: Globalization and the predicament of
classical music.” 9th Annual Conference of the Asia Pacific Society for
Ethnomusicology. Pannasastra University (Cambodia).
2002
“The changing forms of transmitting knowledge in Periya Melam music.”
Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan).
2000
“The Tamil music movement: A challenge to Brahmanical music culture
in South India.” 45th Annual Conference of the Society for
Ethnomusicology (SEM) (Canada).
2000
“My involvement in Tamil Isai.” International Institute of Tamil Studies
(India).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE)
International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)
Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS)
Society for the Study of Asiatic Music
Society for Ethnomusicology
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