Professor Noriko Manabe
Music Theorist
She/Her
Noriko Manabe is Professor and Chair of music theory at Indiana University, with affiliations in ethnomusicology and East Asian Languages and Cultures. She researches music in social movements, popular music, and music and language in Japan and the Americas. Her monograph, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima, won the John Whitney Hall Award from the Association for Asian Studies, the Book Award from the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and Honorable Mention for the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. From the Society for Music Theory, she won the Outstanding Publication Award for her article on Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” and the Public-Facing Scholarship Award for her video on Kuwata Keisuke’s “Abe Road.” She is editor of the 33-1/3 Japan book series and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Protest Music (with Eric Drott).
Contact: https://linktr.ee/nmanabe