Taiko Drumming in the Northeastern United States: Transmission, Innovation and Power
Location
Science Center, A154
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
4-27-2012 1:30 PM
End Date
4-27-2012 2:30 PM
Abstract
Most scholarship on American taiko, or Japanese ensemble drumming, concerns itself with the original performing groups, which were founded within Japanese-American communities. This study explores how taiko is changing as it spreads across the U.S. Through literary research, interviews with the founders of the first taiko groups in the Northeast, and my own taiko experience in San Francisco and Oberlin, I seek to frame Northeastern taiko as an integral and evolving part of the American taiko community.
Recommended Citation
Rogers, Galen, "Taiko Drumming in the Northeastern United States: Transmission, Innovation and Power" (04/27/12). Senior Symposium. 42.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2012/presentations/42
Major
Musical Studies
Advisor(s)
Jennifer Fraser, Ethnomusicology
Project Mentor(s)
Paul Cox, Musicology
April 2012
Taiko Drumming in the Northeastern United States: Transmission, Innovation and Power
Science Center, A154
Most scholarship on American taiko, or Japanese ensemble drumming, concerns itself with the original performing groups, which were founded within Japanese-American communities. This study explores how taiko is changing as it spreads across the U.S. Through literary research, interviews with the founders of the first taiko groups in the Northeast, and my own taiko experience in San Francisco and Oberlin, I seek to frame Northeastern taiko as an integral and evolving part of the American taiko community.
Notes
Session I, Panel 1: Listening in: Case Studies of Musical Form and Historical Change
Moderator: Charles McGuire, Professor of Musicology