Amane Kasai

Profile Information

Affiliation: Lecturer, Faculty of Art and Design, Kyoto University of the Arts

Degree: Ph.D. in Musicology(Mar, 2010, Tokyo University of the Arts)

Researcher number: 00584161
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901077189782960
researchmap Member ID: 6000010383

External link: https://www.waseda.jp/inst/wias/other-en/2020/04/01/6915/

Dr Amane KASAI focuses on the places and environments in which people have experienced music, and how our aesthetic concepts, values, and images of music have been established there. Her originality lies in the cross-genre perspectives she presents: she has examined music used in media events or films rather than focusing on specific works, musicians, or musical genres. Her current project examines tourist sites, particularly hot spring resorts, where people with different musical preferences and backgrounds have gathered and experienced music together.

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Department of Imaging Art, Tokyo Polytechnic University
Apr, 2024 - Present

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Literature, Seijo University
Jun, 2023 - Present

Adjunct Researcher, Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, Waseda University
Apr, 2023 - Present

Adjunct Researcher, Institue for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Apr, 2023 - Present

Lecturer, Faculty of Art and Design, Kyoto University of the Arts
Apr, 2022 - Present

Instructor, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Training Program to Cultivate Performing Arts Professionals, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Apr, 2016 - Present

Part-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Apr, 2012 - Present

Adjunct Researcher, Theatre Museum, Waseda University
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, Waseda University
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023

Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Assistant Professor, Institue for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Part-time Lecturer, Music Department, Toho Gakuen School of Music
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Adjunct Researcher, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Keio University
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Part-time Lecturer, School of Network and Information, Senshu University
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Co-researcher, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2020

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Home Economics, Otsuma Women's University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2020

Part-time Lecturer, Seijo University

Education

Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2010

PhD in Musicology, Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2007

MA in Music, Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts

Committee Memberships

Jan, 2023 - Present

Editorial board member, The Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Member of Management Board, Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Member of Editorial Board, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

2018年度大会実行委員, 日本ポピュラー音楽学会
Sep, 2013 - Mar, 2018

東日本支部通信幹事, 日本音楽学会
2015

第66回大会実行委員, 東洋音楽学会
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

2012年度大会実行委員, 日本ポピュラー音楽学会
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2011

2010年度大会実行委員, 日本ポピュラー音楽学会
2008

渉外担当幹事, 洋楽文化史研究会
2005

参事／情報委員、2006年度選挙管理委員, 東洋音楽学会

Major Papers

Dubbed in Patois: Musical Mimicry Involving the Chinese in Wartime Japanese Popular Songs

KASAI Amane

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10(1) 29-42, Apr 27, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead author

Misc.

書評真鍋昌賢編著『浪花節の生成と展開――語り芸の動態史にむけて』

KASAI, Amane

67(1) 52-54, Nov, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvited
日本音楽学会支部横断企画「日本の映画音楽・音響研究の現在」第2日傍聴記

葛西周

日本音楽学会ウェブサイト, 1-4, Dec, 2015 Invited
書評東谷護編著『ポピュラー音楽から問う——日本文化再考』

葛西周

東洋音楽研究, (80) 73-77, Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
地域横断的な「国民楽派」の議論に向けて——日本における関連用語の混乱を例に——

葛西周

京都大学地域研究総合情報センターディスカッション・ペーパー, (49) 9-12, Mar, 2015 Invited
音楽にみる境界線のポリティクス——博覧会における「植民地」の展示から——

葛西周

日本のポピュラー音楽をどうとらえるか3——文化装置としての東アジア——, 41-53, Jul, 2014 Invited
日本ポピュラー音楽学会第 25 回大会シンポジウム報告

KASAI Amane

jaspm NEWSLETTER, (99) 2-4, Mar, 2014 Invited
成城大学グローカル研究センター公開シンポジウム報告

KASAI Amane

jaspm NEWSLETTER, (92) 7-9, Jun, 2012 Invited
第56回定例研究会川崎瑞穂氏発表報告

葛西周

東洋音楽学会東日本支部だより, (26) 10, 2011 Invited
第37回定例研究会橘川友里氏発表報告

葛西周

東洋音楽学会東日本支部だより, (17) 15, 2008 Invited
第30回定例研究会當麻亜紀子氏発表報告

葛西周

東洋音楽学会東日本支部だより, (14) 11, 2007 Invited

Books and Other Publications

Arts of Physical Expression in China and Japan around the time of the Second World War: Film, Theatre, Dance, Music, Manga

YAN Ni, SHAO Yingjian, HOSHINO Yukiyo (Role: Contributor)

Oct, 2024
Introduction to the Cultural History of Popular Music: Rereading "Postwar Japan"

WAJIMA Yusuke, NAGATOMI Mari (Role: Contributor, Chapter 8: Hot Springs as Performance Venues: The Formation of Site-specificity in Relation to Tourism and Musical Practices)

Minerva Shobo, Aug, 2024 (ISBN: 9784623097029)
音の本を読もう: 音と芸術をめぐるブックガイド

金子智太郎 (Role: Contributor, 座談会音の本とサウンド・スタディーズ：音による思考と音をめぐる思考、24 長門洋平『映画音響論：溝口健二映画を聴く』)

ナカニシヤ出版, Mar 29, 2024 (ISBN: 4779517966)
ユリイカ2024年2月号特集＝クレイジーキャッツの時代

山田洋次, 菊地成孔, 佐藤利明, 伊東四朗ほか (Role: Contributor, クレージーキャッツを古典芸能から笑い直す)

青土社, Jan 29, 2024 (ISBN: 4791704436)
Handbook of Japanese music in the Modern Era

Johnson, Henry M. (Role: Contributor, Chapter 24 Misora Hibari in Kōhaku Utagassen: From Modernity to Immortality (coauthored with Brunt, Shelley))

Brill, Nov, 2023 (ISBN: 9789004524019)
Critical Words for Popular Music

(Role: Contributor, Colonialism/Postcolonialism)

Film Art Inc, Mar 25, 2023 (ISBN: 4845921316)
Reflecting on an Ear for Sound: History, Embodiment and Technology

Shuhei Hosokawa (Role: Contributor, Travelling Audience: Auditory Environment at Hot Springs.)

Artes Publishing Inc., Oct, 2021 (ISBN: 9784865592405)
移動するメディアとプロパガンダ : 日中戦争期から戦後にかけての大衆芸術

西村, 正男, 星野, 幸代 (Role: Contributor, 「音楽プロパガンダにおける「差異」と「擬態」：戦時下日本の「満支」をめぐる欲望」)

勉誠出版, Mar, 2020 (ISBN: 9784585227137)
Films in Colonial Taiwan: Studies on Discovered Propaganda Films

MISAWA, Mamie (Role: Contributor, "A Study on Auditory Elements in Cultural Films shown in Colonial Taiwan")

University of Tokyo Press, Aug, 2017
Music Culture after WWII

TONOSHITA, Tatsuya (Role: Contributor, "Apple Song" "Japan World Exposition '70")

Seikyusha, Jan, 2016
The Sino-Japanese War from Multiple Perspectives: Friction of Politics, Economics, Military Affairs, Culture and Ethnic Groups

BABA, Takeshi (Role: Contributor, "Cultural Maneuvering and Values about Music Genres in Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War")

Shukosha, May, 2015
Representation of “Music” at Festivals in Modern Japan.

Contentsworks, May, 2012

Presentations

The Establishment of Theatre Culture in Hot Spring Resorts and the Revue Format Developed There: Towards the Discussion of ‘Tourist Music Theatre’

KASAI Amane

WIROM 226th Meeting of the Opera Research Group, Feb 1, 2025
The Cross-genre Characteristics of ‘Tourist Theatre’: Considering the Co-Creative Relationship between Stages, Performers and Audiences’

KASAI, Amane

Japanese Society for Theatre Reseach, Nov 30, 2024
Resurrecting Stars of the Past: The Role of Technology in Memorializing Japan’s Misora Hibari

BRUNT, Shelley, KASAI, Amane

SEM 69th Annual Meeting, Oct 23, 2024
Imperialized Ears: Auditory Representations of Hawaii in Transwar Japan

KASAI, Amane

Emerging Voices of Sound Studies in East Asia, Jun 22, 2024
Audible China in Wartime Japan: Propaganda Music and Revues Torn between Exoticism and Pan-Asianism

KASAI, Amane

Association for Asian Studies 2024 Annual Conference, Mar 1, 2024
History of Maritime Music Exchanges as a Method: Focusing on Japan during the Trans-War Period

KASAI, Amane

JASPM the 35th Annual Conference, Dec 10, 2023
Japanese Drums Echoing Through Hot Spring Inns: Considering Music Experiences and the Venues

KASAI, Amane

Institute for Philisophy and Science of Art Online Seminar, Jul 26, 2023 Invited
Imagining Others’ (Un)hearing

KASAI, Amane

WIAS 15th Anniversary Symposium “Well-being in the time of uncertainty”, Dec 13, 2022 Invited
Mobility and Liveness in Music Experiences in the Posthuman Era

KASAI, Amane

The 14th East Asian Humanities Forum, Dec 11, 2022 Invited
A Working Typology of Popular Music Holograms in Asia

BRUNT, Shelley, KASAI, Amane

IASPM-ANZ 2022 Conference, Dec 7, 2022
Fabricated Narratives Sung in Port Languages

KASAI, Amane

2022 AMS-SEM-SMT Joint Annual Meeting, Nov 11, 2022
Exploring the Anthropocene from the Field of Music and Sound Studies: The Material Turn in Ecomusicology

KASAI Amane

WIAS Seminar Series “Humanities in the Anthropocene” Vol. 6 “Sounds Echoing in the Anthropocene: Making Musical Instruments throughout the History of Environmental Change”, Oct 1, 2022
The Substitute Performer: Towards a Typology of Popular Music Holograms in Asia

BRUNT, Shelley, KASAI, Amane

IASPM 21st International Conference, Jul 6, 2022
Sing in a Feigned Voice: Fabricated Narratives in Popular Music

KASAI, Amane

TCS International Symposium "The Cultural History of Sound/Voice", Jan 29, 2022 Invited
Introduction to Hot Spring Musicology: Entertainers at Tourist Sites

Amane Kasai, Mishiro Kurama, Daigoro Tachibana

Waseda Culture and Arts Week 2021: WIAS Young Researchers Project, Oct 12, 2021
Dubbed in Patois: Musical Mimicry Involving the Chinese in Wartime Japanese Popular Songs

Amane Kasai

Resonating Across Oceanic Currents: A Maritime History of Popular Music in and from Japan, 1920s-1960s, Oct 2, 2021
Regional Images Formed by Musical Performances in Hot Spring Resorts: Focusing on 'Hawaii in Japan'

KASAI, Amane

JASPM the 32nd Annual Conference, Dec 26, 2020
Tourist Sites as “Live Music Venues”: Reconsidering Musical Experience from Cross-Genre Viewpoints

KASAI, Amane

The 71st Annual Meeting of the Musicological Society of Japan, Nov 15, 2020
The Ambitious Fantasy of a Pan-Asian Music: Relative Musical Values in Wartime Japan.

KASAI, Amane

Royal Music Association 56th Annual Conference, Sep 8, 2020
Imperializing Ear: Listening "the Others" in Modern Japan

KASAI Amane

Jan 15, 2020

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2023 - Present

文化遺産特論 (京都芸術大学大学院芸術学・文化遺産領域)
Apr, 2023 - Present

日本文化の源流 (京都芸術大学芸術学科)
Apr, 2023 - Present

伝統文化研修 (京都芸術大学芸術学科)
Apr, 2023 - Present

伝統文化入門 (京都芸術大学芸術学科)
Apr, 2013 - Present

アジア文化研究 (東京藝術大学大学院（2013年4月〜2016年3月音楽研究科／2016年4月〜国際芸術創造研究科）)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Tourism and Culture (Waseda University)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Tourism and Culture (Waseda University)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Theory of Community Structure 4 (SCHS Advanced Seminar) (Waseda University)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Expansion and Development of State 1 (SCHS Advanced Seminar) (Waseda University)
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023

Seminar in Art History (Western Art) (Waseda University)
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Introduction to Japanese Music (Toho Gakuen School of Music)
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

英語第Ⅰ (慶應義塾大学法学部)
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Intermediate English (専修大学ネットワーク情報学部)
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2020

音楽の世界 (大妻女子大学家政学部・短期大学部)
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2020

ＷＲＤ：思考し、発信する力を養う（初年次教育） (成城大学文芸学部)
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

English Language and Cultures (専修大学ネットワーク情報学部)
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

Basics of English (専修大学ネットワーク情報学部)
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

日本近現代音楽史 (横浜国立大学教育学部)
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019

伝統文化：日本文化と海外文化 (京都造形芸術大学通信教育部)
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2018

音楽学ゼミナール (成城大学文芸学部)

Professional Memberships

Works

Major Research Projects

Historical Study of the Dynamics of Tourism Performing Arts in Post-War Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(KAKEN), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JSPS, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027

KASAI Amane