E-Mail: matsuej@union.edu
Phone: (518) 388-8075

Jennifer Milioto Matsue is Assistant Professor of Music, East Asian Studies, and Anthropology at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2003. She has conducted research on a variety of music cultures in contemporary Japan including the underground Tokyo hardcore rock scene, nagauta (a type of traditional chamber music featuring the three-string lute shamisen), electronica and trance raves, and most recently, the increasingly popular world of wadaiko (Japanese ensemble drumming). She is interested in how performers find meaning through participating in such music worlds, with a particular focus on women's roles in music-making. She is author of the book Making Music in Japan's Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene (2008), and has published several articles and reviews on related topics.

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