Taiko Bibliography – BenPachter.com

The following is a bibliography of taiko-related sources in both English and Japanese. It is sourced directly from my Zotero library. As I update the Zotero library, those changes will be updated on this website.

If you know of any changes that should be made to this bibliography (additions, corrections, etc.), please feel free to reach out!

Ahlgren, Angela. 2011. “Drumming Asian America: Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in North American Taiko.” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.

Ahlgren, Angela. 2013. “Negotiating (Post?) Orientalism: White Women and North American Taiko.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 58th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Ahlgren, Angela K. 2018. Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Aigner, Hal. 2002. “Full Circle: Seiichi Tanaka.” World Beat Report: Journeying through the World Community of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. 2002.

Akiyama, Kuniharu. 1997. “‘Monokuroomu’ – Nihon Taiko No Emooshanaru Na Bigaku to Ishii Maki No ‘Hi-Ongakuteki Jikan’ 「モノクローム」—日本太鼓のエモーショナルな美学と石井眞木の”非音楽的時間”—.” In Sounds of West – Sounds of East: Maki Ishii’s Music —Striding Two Musical Worlds—, edited by Christa Ishii-Meinecke, translated by Robin Thompson, 164–79. Celle, Germany: Moeck Verlag + Musikinstrumentenwerk.

Alaszewska, Jane. 2008. “Two Different Beats to a Single Drum: An Analysis of Old and New Styles of Hachijo-Daiko.” In Musiké 4: Analysing East Asian Music – Patterns of Rhythm & Melody, edited by Simon Mills, 2:1–23. International Journal of Ethnomusicological Studies 2. The Hague, The Netherlands: Semar.

Asai, Susan. 1985. “Horaku: A Buddhist Tradition of Performing Arts and the Development of Taiko Drumming in the United States.” In Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Vol. VI: Asian Music in North America, edited by Nazir A. Jairazbhoy and Sue Carole DeVale, 163–72. Los Angeles: Program in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of California, Los Angeles.

Asai, Susan M. 1997. “Sansei Voices in the Community: Japanese American Musicians in California.” In Musics of Multicultural America: A Study of Twelve Musical Communities, edited by Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen, 257–85. New York: Schirmer Books.

Asai, Susan Miyo. 1995. “Transformations of Tradition: Three Generations of Japanese American Music Making.” The Musical Quarterly 79 (3): 429–53.

Asano, Akitoshi. 2005. Wadaiko Wo Utō 和太鼓を打とう. Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan: Asano Foundation of Taiko Culture Research.

Asano, Kaoly. 1996. Taiko Wo Utsu! 太鼓を打つ！. Edited by Masatsugu Kawate. Tokyo: Bakushūsha.

Asano Foundation for Taiko Culture Research. 2002. Wadaiko Ga Wakaru Hon 和太鼓がわかる本. Fukudome, Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan: Asano Foundation for Taiko Culture Research.

Associated Press. 2008. “Daihachi Oguchi, 84, Japanese Drummer, Dies.” The New York Times, June 28, 2008.

Barakan, Peter. 1995. “Discussion: A Woman Playing Japanese Drums.” In Wadaiko, edited by Koichi Ikanoshi, 124–35. Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha.

Bender, Shawn. 2003. “Drumming Between Tradition and Modernity: Taiko and Neo-Folk Performance in Contemporary Japan.” Ph.D Dissertation, University of California, San Diego.

Bender, Shawn. 2005. “Of Roots and Race: Discourses of Body and Place in Japanese Taiko Drumming.” Social Science Japan Journal 8 (2): 197–212.

Bender, Shawn. 2010. “Drumming from Screen to Stage: Ondekoza’s Odaiko and the Reimaging of Japanese Taiko.” The Journal of Asian Studies 69 (03): 843–67.

Bender, Shawn. 2012. Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bender, Shawn. 2023. “Chapter 12 Choreographing Sound: Ensemble Taiko Drumming in Modern Japan.” In Handbook of Japanese Music in the Modern Era, edited by Henry Johnson, 205–16. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Bensen, Daniel Maier. 2006. “Taiko: The Formation and Professionalization of a Japanese Performance Art.” Honors Project, Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College.

Brunskill, Hannah-Jasmine. 2012. “Outreach to Roots: Strengthening the Pulse of UK Taiko.” Travelling Fellowship Report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Carle, Sarah. 2008. “Bodies in Motion: Gender, Identity, and the Politics of Representation in the American Taiko Movement.” Masters’ Thesis, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

Carter, Carrie Alita. 2013. “Inventing Taiko.” Thesis, Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong.

Cavey, Tamiko. 2018. “The Taiko Connection: Reclaiming History, Activating Equality.” San Luis Obispo: California Polytechnic State University. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/histsp/40.

Chan, Erin. 2002. “They’re Beating the Drum for Female Empowerment.” Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2002.

Chan, Heidi. 2013. “‘A Musical Journey Beyond All Borders’: Musical and Cultural Border-Crossings of Toronto Japanese Taiko Ensemble Nagata Shachu.” Canadian Folk Music 47 (4): 25–30.

Clark, Felicity. 2018. “TaikOz – Performing Australian Taiko.” The University of Sydney.

Codetta Raiteri, Chiara. 2016. “Taiko: Cultural and Social Uses of a Performance Practice. Ethnography of the Taiko Center of Los Angeles.” Masters Thesis, UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA.

Collins, Glenn. 1990. “Kodo and the Visceral Sound of One Huge Drum Throbbing.” The New York Times, February 20, 1990.

Conrad, Matthew Ryan. 2021. “The Adaptation of Taiko Dojos to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Thesis, The University of Arizona.

Coutts-Smith, Mark. 1997. Children of the Drum: The Life of Japan’s Kodo Drummers. Hong Kong: Lightworks Press.

Creighton, Millie. 2008. “Taiko Today: Performing Soundscapes, Landscapes and Identities.” In Performing Japan: Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity, edited by Henry Johnson and Jerry C. Jaffe. Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental.

Creighton, Millie. 2007. “Changing Heart (Beats): From Japanese Identity and Nostalgia to Taiko for Citizens of the Earth.” In East-West Identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization, edited by Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, and David Hayward, 203–28. Boston: Brill.

Creighton, Millie. 1997. “Consuming Rural Japan: The Marketing of Tradition and Nostalgia in the Japanese Travel Industry.” Ethnology 36 (3): 239–54.

Ferranti, Hugh de. 2000. Japanese Musical Instruments. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ferranti, Hugh de. 2006. “Japan Beating: The Making and Marketing of Professional Taiko Music in Australia.” In Popular Culture, Globalization, and Japan, edited by Matthew Allen and Rumi Sakamoto, 75–93. London: Routledge.

Endo, Kenny. 1998. Interview with Kenny Endo.

Endo, Kenny. 2011. Aatisuto intabyuu, Vol. 07: Kenii Endō アーティストインタビュー Vol. 07: ケニー遠藤.

Endo, Kenny. 1999. “Yodan Uchi: A Contemporary Composition for Taiko.” MA Thesis, Honolulu: University of Hawaii.

Eto, Leonard. 2011. Aatisuto intabyuu, vol. 01, Renaado Etō アーティストインタビュー: Vol. 01, レナード衛藤.

Fitzgerald, Ray. 1976. “These Japanese Run with Rhythm.” Boston Globe, April 19, 1976.

Fromartz, Samuel, and Lauren Greenfield. 1998. “Anything But Quiet.” Natural History, March 1998.

Fujie, Linda. 1983. “Effects of Urbanization of Matsuri-Bayashi in Tokyo.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 15:38–44.

Fujie, Linda. 1989. “Popular Music.” In Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture, edited by Richard Gid Powers and Hidetoshi Kato, 197–220. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Fujie, Linda. 1986. “Matsuri-Bayashi of Tokyo: The Role of Supporting Organizations in Traditional Music.” Dissertation, Columbia University.

Fujie, Linda. 2001. “Japanese Taiko Drumming in International Performance: Converging Musical Ideas in the Search for Success on Stage.” The World of Music 43 (2+3): 93–101.

Fulford-Jones, Will. 2013. “House.” Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 2013.

Fuller, David. 2013. “Solo.” Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 2013.

Glassie, Henry. 1995. “Tradition.” The Journal of American Folklore 108 (430): 395–412.

Gould, Michael. 1996. “Gozo Daiko.” Percussive Notes April 1996:41–46.