UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Associate Professor Hugh de Ferranti Japanese Language and, Culture School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics The University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Australia Tel: (612) 6773-3518 Fax:: (612) 6773-3735 Email: hdeferra@une.edu.au |
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Hugh de Ferranti took degrees in musicology at Sydney University (B. Mus and PhD) and Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music (MA). He spent most of the 1990s in the USA, where he taught at San Francisco State University and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and held a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Cornell University.
In 2001-02 he was a visiting researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. From 2003 he took up an appointment at UNE as Associate Professor in the discipline of Japanese Languages and Cultures.
Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
Interests
Japanese music and performance culture.
The biwa traditions.
Performance processes in oral narrative traditions.
Global reception of Japanese popular culture.
Archiving of music heritage recordings.
Projects
i. CD production and documentation in progress: Double-CD of archive recordings of Yamashika Yoshiyuki, a blind singer and biwa player, for Japan Victor (JVC).
ii. Monograph in progress: An interpretative life-history of Yamashika Yoshiyuki.
iii. Documentation of an emergent wadaiko (Japanese drumming) practice in Australia.
iv. Development of the PARADISEC digital archive for endangered languages and cultures. (HdF is a CI for an ongoing ARC-funded project in collaboration with ANU, Sydney, Melbourne Universities.)
Recent publications:
In press: "Japan beating: the re-making of taiko drum music in contemporary Australia." In: Inside-Out Japan: Popular Culture and Globalisation. Eds. Matthew Allen and Rumi Sakamoto; London: Routledge.
In press: "The Kyushu biwa traditions." In: Japanese Music: History, Performance, Research. Eds: Alison Tokita and David Hughes London: Cambridge University Press, (in press). ISBN number: 0521816947
2003 "Transmission and textuality in narrative traditions of Japanese blind musicians." Yearbook for Traditional Music (Journal of the International Council for Traditional Music) v.35: 131-152
2003 (co-translator and annotator , with Yayoi Uno Everett ) "On the Topic of Sawari", by Takemitsu Tôru. In: Interface with East Asia: Cross-cultural Syntheses in Post-1945 Western Art Music. Eds. Yayoi Uno Everett and Fred Lau.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.:199-20.7 ISBN number: 0-8195-6662-4
2002 "Takemitsu's biwa." Article in A Way a Lone: On the Music of Takemitsu. Co-editors Hugh de Ferranti and Yoko Narazaki (Tokyo: Academia Music): 43-72. ISBN 4-87017-071x
2002 "Japanese music can be popular." Popular Music, 21/2 (Spring 2002)
2000 Japanese Musical Instruments. Book in Oxford University Press' "Images of Asia" series. ISBN 019-5905008