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GILLAN, Matthew A.

Professor

Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

■ Academic Background

1.	2004/10 Degree Acquisition	SOAS, University of London, Ph.D (Music)
2.	1999/09 Degree Acquisition	SOAS, University of London, M. mus Distinction
3.	1993/07 Degree Acquisition	Bristol university, B.Sc hon

■ #Professional Background

1.		Major coordinator (music), Department of Humanities Major: Music, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts
2.	2015/04～	Director, Sacred Music Center, ICU
3.	2010/04～2011/03	Director, Sacred Music Center, International Christian University

■ #Books and Articles

1.	Book	Songs, Language and Culture: Ryukyuan Languages in the Okinawan uta-sanshin tradition. Edited by Takao Katsuragi and John C. Maher. Minority Language Revitalization - Contemporary Approaches pp.236-268 (Collaboration) 2016/12
2.	Book	'Ryukyuan languages in Ryukuan music' in Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara, Michinori Shimoji (Eds.) Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages - History, Structure, and Use, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 685-702. Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages pp.685-702 (Single) 2015
3.	Book	"Whose Heritage? Cultural Properties Legislation and Regional Identity in Okinawa". In Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage - Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Edited by Keith Howard. (Collaboration) 2012/09
4.	Book	Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa (Single) 2012/02
5.	Article	Voice, body and melody in Ryukyuan classical music: Investigating the significance of SEREI Kunio's theory of agijin and sagijin Okinawa Bunka pp.25-43 (Single) 2018/04
6.	Article	Listening to the Voice in Kumiudui: Representations of Social Class and Gender through Speech, Song, and Prosody Asian Music 49(1),pp.4-33 (Single) 2018
7.	Article	Constructing the singing voice: Vocal style, aesthetics and the body in Okinawan music Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 2(2),pp.103-117 (Single) 2017
8.	Article	Song Monuments in Okinawa - Intersections of Sound, Place and Memory Shima - The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 11(2),pp.20-37 (Single) 2017
9.	Article	How ‘Circumpolar’ is Ainu Music? Musical and Genetic Perspectives on the History of the Japanese Archipelago Ethnomusicology Forum 24(3),pp.443-467 (Collaboration) 2015
10.	Article	Review of 'Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology' by Jonathan McCollum and David G. Hebert 61(2),pp.82-84 (Single) 2015
11.	Article	Cultural Imaginings of Okinawan Music from outside Japan Studies of Okinawan Arts and Culture pp.54-76 (Single) 2014
12.	Article	Review of Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan, by Michelle Bigenho. Social Science Japan Journal 17(2),pp.274-276 (Single) 2014
13.	Article	“Dancing Fingers”: Dancing Fingers - Embodied Lineages in the Performance of Okinawan Classical Music Ethnomusicology 57(3),pp.367-395 (Single) 2013/09
14.	Article	Review of An Introduction to Japanese Folk Performing Arts, by Terence A. Lancashire. Social Science Japan Journal 15(2),pp.307-309 (Single) 2012/07
15.	Article	Theorizing the Okinawan body - Fieldwork on physical gestures in the performance of Okinawan classical music. Humanities - Christianity and Culture 43,pp.109-128 (Single) 2012
16.	Article	Okinawa no Takara - Tradition and innovation in Okinawan music Okinawagaku Nyuumon - Kuufuku no Sahou pp.83-107 (Single) 2010/04
17.	Article	Review of Drumming Out a Message: Eisa and Okinawan Diaspora Yearbook for Traditional Music 41,pp.259-260 (Single) 2009/12
18.	Article	Review of Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japa Journal of the Society for Research in Asiatic Music 74,pp.171-173 (Single) 2009/09
19.	Article	Imagining Okinawa – Japanese pop musicians and Okinawan music Perfect Beat 10(2),pp.177-195 (Single) 2009/07
20.	Article	Melodic Expansion and contraction in Okinawan Music: The Chikuten song Group Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan pp.15-29 (Single) 2008/12
21.	Article	Changing rhythms in the music of the Okinawan sanshi (Single) 2008
22.	Article	Treasures of the Island People: Tradition and Modernity in Yaeyaman Pop Music Asian Music pp.42-68 (Single) 2008
23.	Article	Regionality and individuality in Asapana bushi of Tokunoshima island pp.73-94 (Single) 2007
24.	Article	The concept of age and sage in the music of the Ryukyu islands pp.1_24 (Single) 2007
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■ #Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2018/07/30	Sankyoku magazine and the representation of the shakuhachi as a ritual instrument in early 20th century Japan (Shakuhachi Symposium)
2.	2016/08/25	Constructing the Singing Voice – vocal style, aesthetics, and the body in Okinawan Music (ICTM Study Group for the Musics of East Asia)
3.	2016/06	Constructions of Space, Sound and Community through Song Monuments in Okinawa (12th International Small Islands Cultures Conference)
4.	2016/04	Listening to the voice in Kumiudui – between speech, song and prosody (British Forum for Ethnomusicology annual conference)
5.	2015/06/27	Transmission and change of the voice in Okinawan traditional music (Okinawa Bunka Kyoukai)
6.	2015/04/18	Visualising Vocal Technique – understanding Okinawan classical vocal terminology through digital analysis (First International Forum on Digital Musicology)
7.	2014/11	Ideas of the voice in kumiudui - tonae, language, gender and social class (Annual meeting of the Society for the Research of Asiatic Music)
8.	2014/08	Ideas of the voice in Ryukyuan Classical Music and Kumiudui
9.	2013/12/01	Voice, body and fushi in Ryukyuan classical music. (Okinawa Bunka Kyoukai)
10.	2013/07/15	Rhythms of difference – Eisā and multiculturalism in modern Japan (International Council for Traditional Music Conference)
11.	2012/10/07	Performing multiculturalism in cultural exchange of Japan's minority groups
12.	2012/08	Tokyo’s Charanke festival as a site for the performance of indigenous alliances (ICTM MEA Study Group Symposium, Chinese University of Hong Kong,)
13.	2012/03	Views of Okinawan Music from ‘Outside’ (Views of Okinawan Music from ‘Outside’)
14.	2011/07	Embodied Lineages – gesture and movement in the performance of Okinawan classical music (Embodied Lineages – gesture and movement in the performance of Okinawan classical music)
15.	2010/11/14	Movement in Okinawan classical music - embodied performance and monkakai identity (Society for the Study of Asiatic Music, Annual Conference)
16.	2010/08/25	Okinawan Cultural Properties Law and Promotion of the Sanshin as a Symbol of Okinawan Identity (International Council for Traditional Music, MEA study group)
17.	2009/11	Regional and National Support for Okinawan Music (14th International CHIME ConferenceChinese and East Asian Music: The Future of the Past)
18.	2008/11	Japanese Music and Internationalization (T?y? Ongaku Gakkai annual conference)
19.	2007/12	Images of the m?ashibi in Okinawa and Japan (International Council for Traditional Music)
20.	2007/07	Okinawa ongaku wa ninki? [Is Okinawan music popular?] ("T?y? Ongaku Gakkai regional meeting,")
21.	2007/06	Okinawa no sanshin ongaku ni okeru `hayabiki` ni tsuite ? rizumu wo ch?shin ni [Changing rhythms in the music of the Okinawan sanshin] (Okinawa Bunka Kenky?kai annual meeting)
22.	2006/10	“Ry?ky? rett? no senritsu ni okeru `age` to `sage` no gainen” [The concept of age and sage in the music of the Ryukyus] (T?y? Ongaku Gakkai annual conference)
23.	2006/08	“Melodic Expansion and Contraction in Okinawan Music” (International Council for Traditional Music)
24.	2005/05	“Kagoshima-ken Tokunoshima no Asapana bushi ni okeru `chiikisei` to `kojinsei` no k?satsu” [Regionality and individuality in Asapana bushi of Tokunoshima island] (Amami Okinawa Kenky?kai meeting)
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■ #Lectures

1.	2010/01/29	Songs for Gods, Ancestors and People – Okinawan ritual music in the 21st century
2.	2007/02	Okinawa no popyur? ongaku [Okinawan pop music]

■ #Academic Society Memberships

1.	2008～	Society for Ethnomusicology
2.	2006～	International Council for Traditional Music

■ Educational Achievements

● Practice example of education method
1.		"Giving hands-on experience of playing various musical instruments, 2007/9 - present"
2.		"Helping students give multi-media presentations about musical performance, 2007/9- present"
3.		"Using Moodle for providing students updated information about the class, 2008/4 ? present"

■ #Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number

50468550