TCC 39. Social Movements and Protest Scholarship - Professor Noriko Manabe
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the music theorist Professor Noriko Manabe. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Manabe about her background, career journey, the relevance of protest scholarship, Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl performance, the future of music theory and much more!
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Aaron D'Zurilla
Theorist/TCC Founder
He/Him
Aaron D'Zurilla is the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. With diverse research interests in both modern classical composition and rap, Aaron has presented work at the 2025 Indiana University Symposium of Research in Music, with a paper titled: “Guess Who’s Back: Narrative Subversions in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)". In a currently forthcoming presentation, Aaron will also present at the 2025 Analytical Approaches to World Musics Symposium on the Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia, with a paper titled: "International and Personal Tragedy in "A Vietnamese Mother’s Letter to Nixon" (2023)". Aaron also has a forthcoming publication through SMT-Pod, titled: "Trauma and Vocal Timbre in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019)"
Aaron holds a Bachelor's of Music in Music Theory from the University of Florida and a Master's of Music in Music Theory from Florida State University.
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acdzurilla@yahoo.com
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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
