Noriko Manabe

Noriko Manabe is a music professor writing about music and social movements, global popular music, and the music business. Her first monograph, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima (Oxford University Press) explains the history of nuclear power in Japan, the sociopolitical conditions behind protest post-Fukushima, and the political roles and artistic responses of musicians to the nuclear crisis in cyberspace, demonstrations, festivals, and cyberspace. It won the 2017 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, the 2018 BFE Book Prize from the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and Honorable Mention for the 2016 Alan Merriam Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. Her second monograph, Revolution Remixed: Intertextuality in Protest Songs, is under contract with Oxford University Press, as are the edited volumes The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music (with Eric Drott) and Nuclear Music (with Jessica Schwartz). Her publications on Japanese hip-hop, the mobile internet, children's songs, and Cuban music appear in Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, Latin American Music Review, Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures, Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, the Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop, and other publications. She is a winner of the Waterman Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology and fellowships from NEH, Kluge, Japan Foundation, and SSRC/JSPS. She is series editor for 33-1/3 Japan, a series of books on Japanese popular music from Bloomsbury Publishing. She serves on the editorial boards of Twentieth-Century Music and Music and Politics, as well as being a contributing editor for the Asia-Pacific Journal.