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Abstract
The history of Tango in Japan is placed in the context of Japanese concepts of modernity and connected to larger social and cultural forced.
About the speakers
Dr. Yuiko Asaba is Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Music at SOAS University of London. Her research centres on Latin American popular musics (with particular focus on Argentine tango) and their circulations in the Asia-Pacific.
Yuiko’s first book, Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West (University of Hawai‘i Press, In Production), offers the first in-depth study on Japan-Argentina musical connections dating back to the 1910s up to the present.
Her publications on Argentine tango and its global flows have appeared in journals including the Ethnomusicology Forum and the Popular Music Studies, with publications forthcoming with the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, the Cambridge Companion to Tango, and the Oxford Handbook of Global Popular Music.
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