GEM E-Portfolio
GEM E-Portfolio
INTRODUCTION This is an essay I wrote for my global coursework centered on Japanese popular music, I analyze how the repetition of musical history shows that society’s underlying structural frameworks can be more static than they first appear. This class taught me much of what I know about post WWII Japanese musical history and how …
INTRODUCTION During my sophomore year as part of my global coursework I took an interesting class examining Japanese popular music and its evolution since WWII. During the class I analyzed the pervasive concept of the “Japanese Woman” and her portrayal through music, noting how how it has evolved from WWII Gunka (war music) to the …
INTRODUCTION This was an essay I wrote for my Pop Music Revolutionaries in Modern Japan global coursework that later snowballed into a comparative research paper for another class I took. This first music class was a deep-dive into post WWII Japanese music and its intersection in the larger political movements of the time. When taking …
INTRODUCTION This was part of a larger research project I did for one of my global coursework classes, specifically Losers of WWII, a comparative history class analyzing Japan and Germany’s post WWII political and social structures. We were given relative free reign on our final research project and so I, of course, gravitated towards music. …
INTRODUCTION A piece of writing summarizing on my reflections from being in the Chinese Music Ensemble, one of the Global Coursework classes I took for the GEM Minor. At the end of the post is an updated entry, reflecting once again on my time in the Chinese Music Ensemble but connecting it to larger themes, …
INTRODUCTION This is one of the first pieces of writing I did for my CEAS major, but it had wider implications for my academic trajectory. As a child, I’ve always loved the studio Ghibli movies. After discovering Japanese bebop Jazz I ended up gravitating towards other musical avenues and found Joe Hisaishi, the composer for …
