Research field (2):
Sociology
, Aesthetic practices
Research keywords (8):
Popular Music Studies
, East Asia
, cultural sociology
, popular culture
, media studies
, media history
, cultural studies
, cultural history
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2022 - 2023 戦後民放黎明期の放送局とポピュラー音楽の来日公演に関する文化史研究
2018 - 2022 The Histories of Live Music Around the Postwar Pacific Rim
2013 - 2015 ポピュラー音楽のライヴ空間における「客席」の文化史
Papers (5):
Sota CHU. CHTHONIC Warfare: Performing the Bloody Routes of Taiwanese Colonial Past in Post-Cold War World. 2022. 32. 29-48
Sota TAKAHASHI. From the Seat to the Floor: Shifts in Japanese Music Concert Audience Culture. Trans-Asia Popular Music Studies. 2015. 1. 33-47
The Cultural History of Live Music in Japan : A Primal Scene of 'Nipponese Enthusiasm' in 1950s Jazz Craze. 2015. 16. 63-70
Mambo Sun Over the Pacific: Perez Prado’s Late Modernism and Dancing Bodies in Cold War Japan
(International Association for the Study of Popular Music 22th Biennal Conference 2023)
Fuzzy Orientalism: Exotic, Electric and Eclectic Sounds Across the Pacific
(International Association for the Study of Popular Music 21th Biennal Conference 2022)
Reconsidering "Jazz" Boom within Cosmopolitan Contexts: Emergence of International Live Music Exchange in Post-Occupational Japan
(European Association for Japanese Studies 2021)
Beating the Pacific Rim: Gene Krupa's International Tour and the Rise of Loud Live Music in 1950s
(2019)