The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

Staff Members

FUKUOKA Shota
FUKUOKA ShotaFUKUOKA Shota
Research Center for Cultural Resources・Associate Professor
Research Specialization
  • Ethnomusicology; Southeast Asia, Indonesia
Individual Research Projects
  • 1. Audio-visual Media in Performing Arts Studies
  • 2. Modern History of Traditional Performing Arts of West Java
Personal website ［5 Jul 2013 updated］

Academic Qualifications

  • B.A. Tokyo National Univ. of Fine Arts and Music 1986
  • M.A. Tokyo National Univ. of Fine Arts and Music 1991

Research Keywords

West Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Sundanese, Ethnomusicology

Publications (English publications only)

2003
Gamelan Degung: Traditional Music in Contemporary West Java. In S. Yamashita and J. S. Eades (eds.) Globalization in Sountheast Asia: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives, pp. 95–110. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2002
MMC (3): Indonesia. In S. Sugita, J. K. Hong, T. Fujii, J. Reeve and G. Gay (eds.) Global Digital Museum (GDM) for Museum Education on the Internet (Senri Ethnological Reports 28), pp. 142–145. National Museum of Ethnology.

Presentations

2004
“Cultural Policy on Sundanese Performing Arts at the Turn of the Century.” The Micrology of Indonesian Local Societies, 23 March, Jakarta.
2001
“Sundanese Traditional Music in Radio Broadcasting, the 1930s–1950s.” The International Conference on Sundanese Culture (Konferensi Internasional Budaya Sunda), 22–25 August, Gedung Merdeka, Bandung.
2000
“Javanese Gamelan in Japan.” Audiences, Patrons, and Performers in the Performing Arts of Asia Including the 6th Annual CHIME Conference, 24 August, Leiden University.