The Pacer

Imada to present lecture on Japanese, European music

The UTM department of Music will host a visiting Distinguished Professor of Music from Hirosaki University, Japan.

Dr. Tadahiko Imada, associate professor in the faculty of education, will lecture on Sound and Semiotics: A Post-colonialist View of Music at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 19 in the Harriet Fulton Theatre in the Fine Arts Building.

The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the Fine Arts Building Gallery.

In his lecture Imada will compare basic concepts of European classical music and Japanese music.

He will discuss how musical absolutes exist only within the music of a particular culture, and that these absolutes are not cross-cultural, thus not universal.

This is an important concept in music education, particularly in Japan, where many music educators believe that European classical music is absolute and universal.

Born in Tokyo, Imada holds a bachelor of music degree from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.

He received his master’s degree from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where he studied as a recipient of a Government of Canada Award.

He earned his doctorate from the University of British Columbia.
Imada’s publications appear in many academic journals in North America, Australia, Sweden, Korea and Japan.

Together with R. Murray Schafer, he is co-author of A Little Sound Education.

Prior to joining the faculty at Hirosaki University, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Music Education, the Univer-sity of Surrey Roehampton in London, United Kingdom.

For more information, call the Music department at 7402.