David W. Hughes, CURRICULUM VITAEas of 20 March 2016
Personal data:
Name (title): David Weirick Hughes (Dr)
e-mail:
Position:1) Research Associate, Department of Music and Japan Research Centre
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London,
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, England
[since retirement, 1 September 2008]
2) Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Music
Durham University, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL, England
[since 1 September 2009]
Home address: 6-9 Bridgewater Square, London EC2Y 8AG, U.K.z
telephone: mobile +44 (0)7882 025788
Birth data: 2 December 1945, Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Citizenship:U.K. & U.S.A.
Research interests:
Japanese music: folk song, Okinawan music, music education, government arts policy, etc
Oral mnemonics in comparative perspective
Central Javanese music: street musicians, siter, gamelan
Musical grammars
Current and near-future research projects:
The future of Japanese folk song: the role and impact of preservation societies and folk song contests
Traditional music in the context of the Tohoku triple disaster of 11 March 2011
Music transmission and oral mnemonics worldwide (editor and contributor for multi-authored book)
Awards and honours:
2011 Japan Society Award for outstanding contributions to Anglo-Japanese relations and understanding (U.K.)
Education and qualifications:
1985Ph.D., Anthropology & Musicology, University of Michigan
1985M.A. by statute, Cambridge University (Clare Hall)
1982-5Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University
1978-80Visiting Research Student, Tokyo University of the Arts
1972M.Phil., Linguistics, Yale; specialization: Japanese linguistics
1967B.A. cum laude, Linguistics, Yale University
Academic-related positions:
7 Oct 15 - 31 Jan 16Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
1 Jul - 15 Dec 08Visiting Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
1 Sep 95 - 31 Aug 08Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, Univ. of London
(1 Sep 02 - 31 Jul 06 Head, Department of Music)
(1 Sep 90 - 31 Dec 94 Chairman, Centre of Music Studies)
1 Jan 87 - 31 Aug 95Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, Univ. of London
1984-5Director, Javanese gamelan orchestra, Cambridge University
1983Guest Lecturer (Japanese music), Faculty of Music, Cambridge University
1 Sep 82-31 Dec 85Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge
Jan - Apr 82 (4 mos)Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Music, University of Michigan
1981Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, University of Maryland extension programme, Okinawa, Japan
1975-76Director, Japanese Music Study Group, University of Michigan
1972-73Visiting Lecturer in Japanese Language & Linguistics, Dept. of Far Eastern Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan
Other professional service:
British Forum for Ethnomusicology (name until 6/95: International Council for Traditional Music, UK Chapter): Chairman, 1992-94; Committee Member, 1987-2000, 2011-13; at various times Membership Secretary/Treasurer, Publicity Officer, ICTM Liaison
Society for Ethnomusicology: Council, 2005-8
International Council for Traditional Music: Executive Board, 1993-99; 1993 Conference Programme Committee; 1999 Conference Programme Committee
British Journal of Ethnomusicology: Editorial Board, 1991-8
European Foundation for Chinese Music Research: Executive Board, 2010-present
CHIME (Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research): Editorial Board, 1993-present
Arts and Humanities Research Board: member of AHRB Strategic Priorities planning committee on diaspora, 2003-4
SOAS Musicology Series: Editorial Board, 1990-2008
Asia House (London): Cultural Committee, 1999-2008
UK Council for Music Education and Training: World Music Working Party, 1987-94
External examiner for music degree programmes at University College Cork (Ireland), Goldsmiths’ College London, Queen’s University Belfast, Durham University
Examined 29 PhD theses for 14 universities in 4 countries (see below)
Grant applications assessor for research councils in Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Canada and elsewhere
Referee for academic staff promotions, tenure reviews etc in several countries
Referee for submissions to numerous journals in several countries
Referee for submission by Japan to UNESCO Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
Reviser, Cambridge International Examinations, 2014-present
Judge at ca. 8 traditional folk song contests in Japan
Publications and public lectures:
a) Writings and recordings in English and Japanese (most recent shown first):
in prep.chapter on Intangible Cultural Heritage policy and folk music in Japan, book on ICH edited by Barley Norton
2015“Japan”. In Michael Church (ed.) The other classical musics: fifteen Great Traditions, chapter 3 (pp. 74-103, 363-4). Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer.
2010“The Picken School and East Asia: China, Japan and Korea”. Ethnomusicology Forum 19.2: 231-9.
2008Traditional folk song in modern Japan: sources, sentiment and society. Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental. (with CD)
2008(co-editor with Alison McQueen Tokita) The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. (with CD)
2008(with Alison McQueen Tokita) “Context and change in Japanese music”. In Tokita and Hughes 2008 (see above), chapter 1 (pp. 1-33).
2008“Folk music: from local to national to global”. In Tokita and Hughes 2008 (see above), chapter 12 (pp. 281-302).
2008 “Oral mnemonics for the Japanese noh flute”. In Martin Clayton (ed.) Music, words and voice: A reader, pp. 45-55. Manchester University Press. [Excerpts from Hughes 2000.]
2004“‘When can we improvise?’ The place of creativity in academic world music”. In Ted Solis (ed.) Performing ethnomusicology: teaching and representation in world music ensembles, chapter 15 (pp. 261-82). University of California Press.
2001ca. 29,500 words on Japanese music, notation, East Asia etc (some sections co-authored). In Stanley Sadie & John Tyrrell (ed.) New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd ed. Macmillan. (See details in Addendum below.)
2001“‘Sōran Bushi’: the many lives of a Japanese folk song”. CHIME 14/15 (1999/2000): 31-47.
2000“No nonsense: the logic and power of acoustic-iconic mnemonic systems”. British Journal of Ethnomusicology 9.2: 93-120.
1999Min'yō: folk song from Japan: Takahashi Yūjirō and friends. CD, Nimbus NI 5618. Co-producer, performer, annotator (24pp.).
1998Oceans of the heart. CD, SOAS, SOASIS-01. Co-producer.
1997“The siter on the streets of Java”. Seleh Notes 4.2: 6-7 (part 1), 4.3: 14-5 (part 2).
1993“East Asia: Japan”. In Helen Myers (ed.) The New Grove handbooks in musicology: Ethnomusicology, vol. 2: Historical and regional studies, pp. 345-63.New York: Norton; London: Macmillan.
1993“Music”. In Richard Bowring and Peter Kornicki (ed.) The Cambridge encyclopedia of Japan, pp. 216-20. Cambridge Univ. Press.
1993“Ryukyu music”. In Japan: an illustrated encyclopedia, pp. 1285-8. Tokyo: Kodansha.
1993“Other musics: The debate about multi-cultural music education in modern society”. In Papers of the Fifth International Conference of Ethnomusicology, pp. 62-73 (with Chinese abstract). Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University.
1992“‘Esashi Oiwake’ and the beginnings of modern Japanese folk song”. The world of music 34.1: 35-56.
1992“Thai music in Java, Javanese music in Thailand: two case studies”. British Journal of Ethnomusicology 1: 17-30.
1991“Japanese ‘new folk songs’, old and new”. Asian Music 22.1: 1-49.
1991“Grammars of non-Western musics: a selective survey”. Chapter 10 in P. Howell, R. West and I. Cross (ed.) Representing musical structure, pp. 327-62. Academic Press.
1991“Oral mnemonics in Korean music: data, interpretation, and a musicological application”. Bull. School of Oriental and African Studies 54.2: 307-35.
1990“Japanese folk song today: visits to the heart’s home town”. Japan Foundation Newsletter 17.3: 9-13.
1990“‘Esashi oiwake’ to Hokkaidō kaitaku” [The song ‘Esashi oiwake’ and the opening of Hokkaido]. Hokokushū: Kokusai kyōiku shinpojiumu ’89 Sapporo kaigi 'Ibunka rikai to kyōiku’—Hokkaidō kara no kokusai kōryū, pp. 35-6. [in Japanese]
1989“The historical uses of nonsense: vowel-pitch solfège from Scotland to Japan”. In Margot Lieth Philipp (ed.) Ethnomusicology and the historical dimension, pp. 3-18. Ludwigsburg, Germany: Philipp Verlag.
1989“Music studies”. In V.T. King (ed.) Research on South-East Asia in the United Kingdom: a survey, pp. 58-60.Hull University, Centre for South-East Asian Studies.
1989“ICTM/UK One Day Conference 1988, Notation as a Tool for Ethnomusicology: Extension of Round Table”. Intntl. Council for Trad. Music UK Chapter Bulletin 23: 3-12.
1988“Deep structure and surface structure in Javanese music: a grammar of gendhing lampah”. Ethnomusicology 32.1: 23-74.
1988(co-editor with Ellen Hickmann) The archaeology of early music cultures. Bonn: Verlag für systematische Musikwissenschaft.
1988“Music archaeology of Japan: data and interpretation”. In Hickmann and Hughes (ed.) 1988 (see above), pp. 55-87.
1988Discussion with M. Kadoya: “Ikoku no ongaku ka? Nihon min’yō” [Is it foreign music? Japanese folk song]. Dadasuko (Kitakami, Japan) 5: 2-8. [in Japanese]
1987“Heike biwa: a Japanese epic tradition”. In Music of the royal courts, pp. 35-6. London: The South Bank Board.
1987“Kodai no koto ni kansuru nisan no shiryō” [Some material relevant to ancient Japanese zithers]. Kōkogaku Jānaru [Archaeology Journal] 284 (1987), pp. 27-30. [in Japanese]
1986“Traditional folk song in modern Japan”. In Thomas Vennum (ed.) 1986 Festival of American Folklife, pp. 36-40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
1985The heart’s home town: traditional folk song in modern Japan. (Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Michigan.) University Microfilms International.
198420,000 words on musical instruments of Japan. In S. Sadie (ed.) New Grove dictionary of musical instruments. Macmillan.
1984“Music” (trad. folk and art, Western classical, jazz). In All-Japan: the catalogue of everything Japanese, pp. 118-27. New York: Quill.
1983“Ryukyu music”. In Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan, vol. 6, pp. 357-8. Tokyo: Kodansha.
1981“Japanese folk song preservation societies: their history and nature”. In Procdgs. of the 4th Intntl. Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, pp. 29-45. Tokyo: National Research Institute of Cultural Properties.
1981“Okinawan dance: from decorum to delirium”. Asia 4.4: 22-7.
1980“Okinawan dance and music: at the crossroads of East Asia”. In The Fifth Festival of Asian Arts, pp. 98-103. Hong Kong: The Urban Council.
1980“Sato-kagura: old Edo lives in modern Tokyo”. In The Fifth Festival of Asian Arts, pp. 92-7. Hong Kong: The Urban Council.
1980“Kaigai de hōgaku o ensō suru hito e” [To those performing Japanese music overseas]. Kikan Hōgaku 23: 137-8. [in Japanese]
1980Min’yō & “min’yo”: Yoshio Tanaka and David Hughes (LP, Nippon Columbia FZ-7128). Singer/instrumentalist of Japanese folk songs.
1980Insert notes for phonograms of Japanese music: “1000 years of Japanese classical music” [Nihon koten ongaku taikei], vols. 2 (with P. Ackermann), 4 and 8 (Tokyo: Kodansha).
ca.1980Insert notes for phonogram of Japanese music: “Music for 20-string koto” (Camerata Tokyo CMT 1015-8).
1979“Ongaku to dentō” [Music and tradition]. Hōgaku Gendai 7: 15-6. [in Japanese]
1979Concert review: “Yūeki datta Aoi no Ue no kashō shidō” [Profitable Aoi no Ue singing lesson]. Kikan Hōgaku 19: 101. [in Japanese]
1979“Zadankai: gaijin gakusei ōi ni Hōgaku o kataru” [Discussion: foreign students hold forth on Japanese music]. Kikan Hōgaku 20: 55-66. [in Japanese]
1979Interview/discussion: “Aoi me no mita Nihon min’yō” [Japanese folk song through blue eyes]. Min’yō Bunka 12: 36-9. [in Japanese]
1977“Amerikajin no me de mi, mimi de kiita Nihon ongaku” [Japanese music through the eyes and ears of an American]. Kikan Hōgaku 11: 22-7. [in Japanese]
b) Radio broadcasts:
13 programmes on Japanese music for overseas broadcast by Japan Broadcasting Corp., 1979-80.
Programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (or *4): Okinawan music, 1982; Japanese court music, 1988, 1991, 2001; Japanese folk song (2 programmes), Noh music (5 programmes), 1991; Taiwanese aboriginal music (“Songs to make the crops grow”), 1993; Tsugaru-jamisen (Kinoshita Shin’ichi), 2004; *“How Strange the Change” (special series on major/minor worldwide; 2 programmes), 2005
Consultant for October 1991 “Japan Season” (BBC Radio in general).
Performed Okinawan folk song via telephone from London on Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation radio for “Sanshin Day”, ca. 2002.
Numerous other radio contributions, as narrator, specialist guest etc.
(See below for further television, radio and stage appearances in Japan.)
c) Major translations:
1992(with G. Barnes) K. Tsuboi and M. Tanaka, The historic city of Nara: the archaeology of Japan’s ancient capital. Tokyo: UNESCO.
1980J. Tanaka, The San, hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari: a study in ecological anthropology. Univ. of Tokyo Press.
d) Book and recording reviews: some 45-50 items.
e) Public and/or contracted lectures, performances, selected conference papers etc.:
• invited lectures (sometimes including performance): dozens of universities in USA and UK since 1974 (some early ones are not listed): Wayne State U 1975; E. Michigan U 1976; U Hawaii 1976, 2011 (three lectures); U of Maryland-Kadena (Okinawa) 1981 (twice); Japan Foundation, London, many events; Embassy of Japan, London 1983, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2014; Cambridge U 1983 (11 lectures), 1996, 2016; Guildhall School of Music, 1983, 1988; Oxford U 1983; Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology 1983; Morley College, London 1983; Commonwealth Institute, London, various occasions; Dartington College of Arts 1985; De Evenaar, Rotterdam 1986; Leiden U, 1986, 2009; South Bank Centre, London 1987; Oberlin College USA, 1989; Hokkaido U of Education, Japan 1989; University of Reading 1989, 2011; Conservatory of Traditional Music, Padang Panjang, Indonesia 1990; Edinburgh U, 1990; Kingston Polytechnic, London 1991; Oxford Polytechnic 1991; Frogmore School, Surrey 1991; Khon Kaen U, Thailand 1992; National Taiwan Normal U. 1992; Queen’s U. Belfast 1995; Durham U many times from 1990s to 2014; Kathmandu U, Nepal 1997; Japan Society, London 1998, 2005; Donnington Grove Society, Newbury, UK 1998; U of Limerick, Ireland 1999, 2013 (2 lectures); Durham Oriental Museum 1999; Musicological Society of Japan 2000; Okinawa U of the Arts 2000; Society for Research in Asiatic Music (Japan) 2000; Horniman Museum, London 2003; U. Michigan 2003 (twice), 2009; Edinburgh Festival 2003; U of Colorado 2004, 2009; Daiwa House, London 2005 (twice), 2008; Gresham College, London 2006; University College Dublin 2006, 2007; International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan 2008 (twice); Meiji Gakuin U., Japan 2008; El Colegio de México 2009; North London Collegiate School 2010, 2011; Junior Royal Academy of Music, London 2011; City U, London 2011-12; Middlesex U London, 2011-12, 2014; U Toronto 2012; Ryerson U, Toronto 2012; Japan Society Southern Counties (UK) 2012; Ca’ Foscari U, Venice 2013; University College Cork 2013; Sheffield U 2015; Kunitachi College of Music, Japan 2015; Tokyo U. of Foreign Studies, Japan 2015-16 (thrice). (Numerous conference papers not included here.)
• assistance (variously as master of ceremonies/lecturer/interviewer/co-performer) for visiting Japanese performers in UK, USA, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines (can’t remember all of them, but): folk song/Tsugaru-jamisen (Takahashi Yujiro troupe; Kinoshita Shin’ichi; DADAN; Kimura Shunsuke & Ono Etsuro; Endo Yoshihiro; members of Abeya; Sano Yoriko; Watanabe Masao & Kazuyo; Hibiki Ichikawa), folk performing arts (Matsumoto Gennosuke troupe; Hongawa Kagura; Hachijo-daiko; Shishi-odori), Buddhist & other religious music (Shingon & Tendai joint recital; Konkokyo; Ueda Junko, Buddhist chant), gagaku (Tenri University Gagaku Ensemble, 3 times), Kabuki dance & music / classical dance (Nakamura Fukusuke IX troupe; Imafuji Chotatsuro troupe; Nishikawa Senzo X troupe; Mochizuki Tasaku III; National Theatre Kabuki trainees; Katsumi Tomoko; Morimoto Ukyo; Hisago-kai w. Fujima Yūko), Noh and kyogen (Oshima Noh Theatre; Matsui Akira; Izumi-Sōke troupe; Izumi Junko & Shōko; Umewaka Naohiko; Richard Emmert), gidayu (Toyozawa Tomisuke & Takemoto Chitosedayu), shinnai (Tsuruga Wakasanojo XI; Shigemori Yugo), Okinawan music and dance (Tamaki Antei; Kise Shinjin; Horiuchi Kanako; Murayoshi Akane; Miyagi Minoru troupe; Sonda Eisā performers; Irei Aki & Chihiro), biwa (Ueda Junko; Fumon Yoshinori; Doisaki Masatomi; Chikuzen-biwa Hozonkai (Tateishi Kayoko et al.)), taiko (Kojima Chieko); contemporary music including traditional instruments (Nihon Ongaku Shudan; Miyata Mayumi, sho; TIME (Tokyo International Music Ensemble); Yoshida Kōichi group), classical shakuhachi, koto, sankyoku (Aoki Reibo; Iwamoto Yoshikazu; Fujii Akiko troupe; Eirakukai; Sanagi Noriko; Kikuchi Teiko & JOPA ensemble; Nagai Seiho et al.; Yagi Michiyo; Kameyama Kono; Naka Kaori), traditional street performances (Gen Goro), contemporary sound (Suzuki Akio).
• workshops for schoolteachers and/or students at SOAS and elsewhere in the UK (some under the auspices of the Japan Festival Education Trust, Japan Society, Scottish Chamber Orchestra etc).
• numerous concerts in the UK, Japan, US and elsewhere (performing Japanese folk song, nagauta, Noh, gagaku, Okinawan music, Javanese gamelan, Thai music and others).
dozens of TV and radio performances of traditional folk song in Japan (mostly 1977-81).
• performing member of the SOAS Min’yō Group [Japanese folk song], London Okinawa Sanshinkai [Okinawan music], SOAS Thai Music Ensemble, University of London Noh Society, Durham Gamelan Society, SOAS Ceilidh Band, among others.
• numerous conference papers in several countries.
• programme notes for numerous concerts.
Grants, research trips, conference grants since 1984 (excluding grants from own institution):
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science: research on Japanese music archaeology (Japan, 10 Mar-28 Apr ’84) [Iwate, Tokyo etc; Clare Hall support]
Japan Foundation: research on Japanese folk song (Japan, 1 July-30 Sept. ’88) [Hokkaido, Iwate, Tokyo]
Japan Foundation Endowment Committee: purchase of instruments for Noh and Kabuki music (Japan, ’88) [£2,000]
British Academy: to give paper at SIMS symposium (Melbourne, Aug-Sep ’88) [£400]
British Academy: to give paper at symposium at Hokkaido Univ. of Education (Japan, July ’89)
Music research, Indonesia, Thailand and Laos, Apr-Sep ’90
Great Britain-Sasakawa Foundation: to bring two Noh teachers to SOAS from Japan (Jan.-March ’91)
Japan Foundation Endowment Committee: for expenses of Noh teaching/production and purchase of Noh instruments (Jan.-March ’91) [£2,000]
Leverhulme Trust: to prepare materials for multicultural music education (April-Sept. ’91)
British Council (THA/361/1039): to give paper as invited speaker at conference at Khon Kaen Univ., Thailand (Jan ’92) [flight & lodging]
Council for Cultural Planning and Development, Taiwan: for research on Taiwanese aboriginal music, and to give paper as invited speaker at 5th International Conference on Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University (Sep ’92)
Leverhulme Trust (F.166F): to direct research project on Chinese village ritual music (Aug ’93-July ’97) [£99,320]
British Academy: to give paper at International Society for Ryukyuan Studies symposium (Boston, Mar ’94)
British Academy: to research zither music styles in Central Java (Indonesia, Jan-Mar ‘95) [£3,000]
British Academy overseas conference grant: to give paper and convene panel at Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference (Toronto, Nov-Dec ’96) [£xx]
Japan Foundation Endowment Committee: for research on Japanese oral mnemonics etc (Japan, Aug ’99) [£2,775]
British Academy overseas conference grant: to give paper at Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference (Austin, Texas, Nov ’99) [£393]
Leverhulme Trust (F/07166A): to direct research project on Cambodian, Laotian and Thai music and cultural identity (Jun ’00-Dec ’02; in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Apr ’01) [£84,084]
Japan Foundation: for research on Okinawan music (July-Dec. 2000) [maintenance, airfare, insurance]
Music research (Japan, Sado and Okinawa, Aug-Sep ’03)
British Academy: overseas conference grant: to give paper at ICTM 37th world conference (Fuzhou & Quanzhou, PRC, Jan ’04) [£788]
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (5553/5726): Small Grant for air fares for two Eisa teachers, SOAS Summer School (Jun-Jul ’05) [£1,500]
Japan Foundation Endowment Committee (0406 351): music education research in Japan (Japan, Jul-Aug ’06) [£1,980]
International Research Center for Japanese Studies: research on Japanese folk song contests and preservation societies, Japan, Jul-Dec ’08 [salaried]
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (£600) & Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (£450): research on Japan national and local government policy toward Intangible Cultural Heritage in folk song (Japan, Jun-Jul ’09) [total £1,050]