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Koda Nobu (幸田延, 1870~1946) and Construction of Western Music Culture in Modern Japan

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
  • Abbr : JKSM
  • 2018, 26(1), pp.37~80
  • DOI : 10.34303/mscol.2018.26.1.002
  • Publisher : The Korean Society for Musicology
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Musicology > Other Musicology
  • Published : June 30, 2018

Park, Jeongsook 1

1에이치케이음악문화연구소

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ABSTRACT

During the Meiji period, Japan actively introduced Western music in the process of modernization and developed it as a nation-led initiative. Koda Nobu (1870-1946) is a woman musician who played a very important role in constructing Western music culture in modern Japan. She received Western-style modern music education under the modernization education system of Japan, after that, she became a professor of the Tokyo Academy of Music after returning to study in the United States and Vienna, Austria, as the first music student of the Ministry of Education. She was also Japan's first Western music composer. However, Japan's male intellectual society at the time was unable to accept Koda Nobu, a woman who served as an authority on Western music, and eventually forced her to step down from professions with various accusations and exclusion. Since then she continued her musical activities in her new private music space based on her own experience and knowledge. Although Koda Nobu played an important role in the process of Western music being transmitted to Japan, she tends not to be mentioned so much in Japan's Western music history. In this paper, I examine the process of forming identity as a woman musician by revealing the activities of Koda Nobu, and discuss the gender role ideology of modern Japan.

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