CJS Postdoctoral Fellow
About
Keisuke Yamada has served as a Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA. He received his PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania, PA, and his MMus in historical musicology at Northwestern University, IL. He is the author of Supercell Featuring Hatsune Miku (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). His other peer-reviewed work has appeared in Asian Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Japan Forum, Japanese Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies (forthcoming 2024), Technology and Culture, The Asia-Pacific Journal, and The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology, among others. His doctoral dissertation, “Ecologies of Instrumentality: The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Shamisen Making,” received the 2021 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Doctoral Dissertation Award in Arts & Humanities.
He has been completing a book manuscript entitled Ecologies of Sound: Noise, Music, and Silencing in Industrial Japan. The book offers a sound-centered analysis of the logic and interplay of global capitalism, militarism, and industrialization that have shaped the soundscapes and sound-politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan. The book manuscript is currently under revision for Duke University Press.
