Guest Scholar Renaissance Musicology Talk

Five College Renaissance Seminar

Makoto Harris Takao: A Bowl by Any Other Name Would Ring as Sweet
The Transcultural Sounds of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Japan

Makoto Harris Takao is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Affiliated Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Trained as a historian of religion, his varied scholarship uses music to map Japan’s international relations from the sixteenth century to the present day. Takao’s work has appeared in such journals as Early Music, Zeithistorische Forschungen, Contributions to the History of Concepts, and the Journal of Religious History, the latter of which was awarded the Bruce Mansfield Prize in 2022. His most recent publication is a critical research guide to the field of global music history for Oxford Bibliographies in Music.

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