Jay Keister
keister@colorado.edu
http://spot.colorado.edu/~keister/
Imig Music Building N124
303-492-5496
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Jay Keister, Associate Professor, is an Ethnomusicologist and scholar of Japanese music. Dr. Keister received the MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of
California, Los Angeles. His research concerns individual agency in music, embodiment of music traditions, aesthetics of music and traditional social structures in contemporary
musical practice. His book Shaped By Japanese Music (2004 NY: Routledge) is the result of his research on traditional performance practice in contemporary Japan and his training
in Japanese strings, flutes and percussion. He has published articles on Japanese music in the journals Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, The World of Music and on Japanese
dance in Asian Theatre Journal. He also co-authored an article on progressive rock in the journal Popular Music.