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Matt Gillan

Scholar & Shakuhachi

Matt Gillan obtained MMus and PhD degrees (Music) from SOAS in London, and has taught musicology at International Christian University in Tokyo since 2007. His research has focused particularly on the music of Okinawa, theories of the voice in Japanese music, and the shakuhachi. He has played the shakuhachi since 1995 and is currently a student of the Myōan shakuhachi school.

Publications

Title Kanji Publisher Year Pages Language
Sankyoku Magazine and the Invention of the Shakuhachi as Religious Instrument in Early 20th-Century Japan https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol7/iss1/2/

Yale Journal of Music & Religion 2021 31 English