Taiko Bibliography

BOOKS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hanai, Kiyoshi. Wadaiko Ga Tanoshiku Naru Hon (Gijutsu-Hen) 和太鼓が楽しくなる本 (技術編). Mattoshi, Japan: The Asano Foundation for Taiko Culture Research, 2001.

Hayashi, Eitetsu. Ashita No Taiko Uchi e 明日の太鼓打ちへ. Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1992.

———. Hayashi Eitetsu Taiko Jitsugetsu Dokusō No Kiseki 林英哲 太鼓日月 独走の軌跡. Tokyo: Koudansha, 2012.

Hoshino, Komaro. Kodo. Edited by Toshio Kawauchi. Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha Ltd., 1985.

Inoue, Ryohei. Ondekoza, Amerika Wo Hashiru 鬼太鼓座、アメリカを走る. Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 1996.

Kodo Cultural Foundation. Inochi Moyashite, Tatakeyo. -Kodo 30-Nen No Kiseki – いのちもやして、たたけよ。－鼓童30年の軌跡ー. Tokyo: Shuppan Bunka Sha Corporation, 2011.

Kono, Yuki. Yasashiku Manaberu Wadaiko Kyōhon やさしく学べる 和太鼓教本. Tokyo: Sekibunsha, 2001.

Miyake, Satoko, and Hironori Nakagawa. Taiko 太鼓. Osaka: Kaihou Shuppansha, 2001.

Miyake, Satoko, and Jun’ichi Ota. Taiko Shokunin 太鼓職人. Tokyo: Kaihou Shuppansha, 1997.

Mogi, Hitoshi. Nyūmon Nihon No Taiko-Minzoku, Dentō Soshite Nyuuweebu 入門 日本の太鼓―民俗、伝統そしてニューウェーブ. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2003.

Nippon Taiko Foundation. Nihon Taiko Kyōhon 日本太鼓教本. 4th ed. Tokyo: Nippon Taiko Foundation, 2006.

Oguchi, Daihachi. Tenko – Oguchi Daihachi No Nihon Taiko-Ron 天鼓ー小口大八の日本太鼓論. Nagano, Japan: Ginga Shobo, 1987.

Ohta, Junichi. Sado No Kodo 佐渡の鼓童. Osaka: Center Brain Co.,LTD, 1989.

Ono, Mieko. Taiko to Iu Gakki 太鼓という楽器. Hakusan, Japan: Asano Taiko Bunka Kenkyūjo, 2005.

Osuwa Daiko Gakuen. Nihon No Taiko 日本の太鼓. Edited by Mikio Yamamoto. Okaya, Japan: Daihachi Oguchi & Osuwa Daiko Gakuen, 1994.

Sendo, Shintaro. Gendai Wadaiko Sōhō 現代和太鼓奏法. Tokyo: Onkyou Publish, 2007.

Shimasaki, Atsuko, and Tomiko Kato. Jyugyō No Tame No Nihon No Ongaku, Sekai No Ongaku 授業のための日本の音楽、世界の音楽. Tokyo: Ongaku no Tomosha, 1999.

Taiko Center. Wadaiko Nyūmon 和太鼓入門. Edited by Masahiro Nishitsunoi. Kyoto: Taiko Center, 1992.

Tamura, Takuo. Yasashiku Manaberu Wadaiko Nyūmon やさしく学べる 和太鼓入門. Tokyo: Zen-On Music Co., Ltd., 2001.

Tanaka, Kenji. Hitome de Wakaru Nihon Ongaku Nyūmon ひと目でわかる日本音楽入門. Tokyo: Ongaku no Tomosha, 2003.

Varian, Heidi. The Way of Taiko. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2005.

Wong, Deborah. Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music. New York: Routledge, 2004.

———.Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko. California: University of California Press, 2019.

Yamamoto, Hiroko. Nihon No Taiko, Ajia No Taiko 日本の太鼓、アジアの太鼓. Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2002.

Yuuki, Emi. Ondekoza Ga Hashiru – Boku No Seishun Amerika 15,000-Kiro 鬼太鼓座(おんでこざ)が走る―ぼくの青春アメリカ1万5千キロ. Tokyo: Popura-sha, 1995.

Za Ondekoza. Taiko No Biito Ni Miserarete – Ondekoza Seiaki Kouen-Ki 太鼓のビートに魅せられて―鬼太鼓座世界公演記. Tokyo: Ongaku Shuppansha, 1999.

BOOK SECTION

Akiyama, Kuniharu. “‘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, 1997.

Alaszewska, Jane. “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, 2008.

Asai, Susan. “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, 1985.

Asai, Susan M. “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, 1997.

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

Bender, Shawn. “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, 2023.

Creighton, Millie. “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, 2007.

———. “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, 2008.

Ferranti, Hugh de. “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, 2006.

Honda, Yasuji. “Geinō to Taiko 芸能と太鼓.” In Minzoku Geinō 2 民族芸能2[Folk Performing Arts 2], edited by Masahiro Nishitsunoi, 105–8. Tokyo: Ongaku-no-tomo-sha, 1990.

Kojima, Haruko. “Nihon No Taiko 日本の太鼓.” In Minzoku Geinō 2 民族芸能2[Folk Performing Arts 2], edited by Masahiro Nishitsunoi, 99–104. Tokyo: Ongaku-no-tomo-sha, 1990.

Konagaya, Hideyo. “Performing Manliness: Resistance and Harmony in Japanese American Taiko.” In Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities, edited by Simon J. Bronner, 134–56. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Li, Yujie. “From Japan to China: Another Interpretation of Taiko.” In Sustaining Musical Instruments / Food and Instrumental Music, edited by Gisa Jähnichen, VII:67–78. STUDIA INSTRUMENTORUM MUSICAE POPULARIS,. Berlin: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2021.

Miller, Terry E., Susan M. Asai, and Anne K. Rasmussen. “Asian American Musics.” In Music Cultures in the United States, edited by Ellen Koskoff, 273–302. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Misumi, Haruo. “Taiko to Matsuri-Bayashi 太鼓と祭り囃子.” In Minzoku Geinō 2 民族芸能2[Folk Performing Arts 2], edited by Masahiro Nishitsunoi, 109–13. Tokyo: Ongaku-no-tomo-sha, 1990.

Nishitsunoi, Masahiro. “Nihon No Taiko No Bunrui Kaisetsu 日本の太鼓の分類解説.” In Minzoku Geinō 2 民族芸能2[Folk Performing Arts 2], edited by Masahiro Nishitsunoi, 118–23. Tokyo: Ongaku-no-tomo-sha, 1990.

Powell, Kimberly. “The Apprenticeship of Embodied Knowledge in a Taiko Drumming Ensemble.” In Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds, edited by Liora Bresler, 183–95. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

———. “Inside-Out and Outside-In: Participant Observation in Taiko Drumming.” In Innovations in Education Ethnography: Theory, Methods, and Results, edited by George Spindler and Lorie Hammond, 33–64. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

Seattle Matsuri Taiko. “Japanese Taiko: Drum for Learning about Culture.” In Pacific Voices: Keeping Our Cultures Alive, edited by Miriam Kahn and Erin Younger, 105–13. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Terada, Yoshitaka. “Shifting Identities of Taiko Music in America.” In Transcending Boundaries: Asian Musics in North America, edited by Yoshitaka Terada, 37–59. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2001.

———. “Angry Drummers and Buraku Identity: The Ikari Taiko Group in Osaka Japan.” In The Human World and Musical Diversity: Proceedings from the Fourth Meeting of the ICTM Study Group “Music and Minorities” in Varna, Bulgaria 2006, edited by Rosemary Statelova, Angela Rodel, Lozanka Peycheva, Ivanka Vlaeva, and Ventsislav Dimov, 309–15. Bulgarian Musicology. Studies. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art Studies, 2008.

Wong, Deborah. “Noisy Intersection: Ethnicity, Authenticity and Ownership in Asian American Taiko.” In Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions, edited by Um Hae-kyung, 85–90. New York: Routledge, 2005.

———. “Taiko and the Asian/American Body: Drums, Rising Sun, and the Question of Gender.” In Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, edited by Jennifer C. Post, 87–96. New York: Routledge, 2006.

———. “Moving: From Performance to Performative Ethnography and Back Again.” In Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, edited by Gregory Barz and Timothy J. Cooley, Second., 76–89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

JOURNAL/MAGAZINE/NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Asai, Susan Miyo. “Transformations of Tradition: Three Generations of Japanese American Music Making.” The Musical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 429–53.

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

Bender, Shawn. “Drumming from Screen to Stage: Ondekoza’s Odaiko and the Reimaging of Japanese Taiko.” The Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 03 (2010): 843–67.

———. “Of Roots and Race: Discourses of Body and Place in Japanese Taiko Drumming.” Social Science Japan Journal8, no. 2 (2005): 197–212.

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

Chan, Heidi. “‘A Musical Journey Beyond All Borders’: Musical and Cultural Border-Crossings of Toronto Japanese Taiko Ensemble Nagata Shachu.” Canadian Folk Music 47, no. 4 (2013): 25–30.

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

Creighton, Millie. “Consuming Rural Japan: The Marketing of Tradition and Nostalgia in the Japanese Travel Industry.” Ethnology 36, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 239–54.

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

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

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

———. “Japanese Taiko Drumming in International Performance: Converging Musical Ideas in the Search for Success on Stage.” The World of Music 43, no. 2+3 (2001): 93–101.

Glassie, Henry. “Tradition.” The Journal of American Folklore 108, no. 430 (1995): 395–412.

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

———. “Taiko Classification and Manufacturing.” Percussive Notes, June 1998, 12–20.

Haffner, Palmer. “Meaningful Music-Making in a Casual Social Environment: An Ethnographic Study of an Amateur University Taiko Ensemble.” VIsions of Research in Music Education 37 (September 2020).

Hashimoto, Hiroyuki, and David Ambaras. “Re-Creating and Re-Imagining Folk Performing Arts in Contemporary Japan.” Journal of Folklore Research 35, no. 1 (April 1998): 35–46.

Hayashi, Eitetsu. “Tokushuu Hayashi Eitetsu Zenshi 1970-2000 特集 林英哲 全史 1970-2000.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 17 (May 1999): 9–79.

Hennessey, Sarah. “’Taiko SouthWest’: Developing a ‘New’ Musical Tradition in English Schools.” International Journal of Music Education 23, no. 3 (December 2005): 217–26.

Henry, JoHnson, Sueo Kuwahara, and KuwaHara Sueo. “Neo-Traditional Ensemble Drumming in the Amami Islands: Mapping New Performance Traditions” 34, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 13–39.

Higashi, Munenori. “Taiko Ongakufuroku, Dai Ikkai: Chichibu Yatai-Bayashi 太鼓楽譜録、第一回：秩父屋台囃子.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 2 (January 1989): 50–51.

———. “Taiko Ongakufuroku, Dai Nikkai: Chichibu Yatai-Bayashi, Sono II 太鼓楽譜録、第二回：秩父屋台囃子、そのII.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 3 (July 1989): 46–47.

Honma, Masahiko. “Ondekoza Koto Hajime 鬼太鼓座事はじめ.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 10 (August 1994): 11–13.

Izumi, Masumi. “Reconsidering Ethnic Culture and Community: A Case Study on Japanese Canadian Taiko Drumming.” Journal of Asian American Studies 4, no. 1 (February 2001): 35–41.

———. “Amerika Ni Okeru Wadaiko No Kigen to Hatten: ‘Nihon’ Bunka Ishoku No Mitsu No Ruikei アメリカにおける和太鼓の起源と発展 : 「日本」文化移植の三つの類型.” Gengo Bunka 言語文化 [Language and Culture ] 11, no. 2 (2008): 139–68.

Johnson, Henry. “Why Taiko? Understanding Taiko Performance at New Zealand’s First Taiko FestIval.” Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 5, no. 2 (2008): 111–34.

———. “Mediatising Taiko in Contemporary Technoscapes,” 57–62. International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2010.

———. “Drumming in the Transcultural Imagination: Taiko, Japan and Community Music Making in Aotearoa/New Zealand.” International Journal of Community Music 5, no. 1 (March 2012).

Johnson, Henry, and Sueo Kuwahara. “Drum Travel: Ensemble Drumming Traditions on Kikaijima—Cultures, Histories, Islands.” Asian Music 46, no. 1 (2015): 110–45.

———. “Locating Shima in Island Drumming: Amami Ōshima and Its Archipelagic Drum Groups.” Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 7, no. 1 (2013): 14–38.

———. “Neo-Traditional Ensemble Drumming in the Amami Islands: Mapping New Performance Traditions.” South Pacific Study 34, no. 1 (2013): 13–39.

Kageyama, Yuri. “Following the Drumbeat: Percussionist Pursues His Ancestral Heritage.” The Japan Times Weekly, June 21, 1986.

Kobayashi, Kim Noriko. “Asian Women Kick Ass: A Study of Gender Issues within Canadian Kumi-Daiko.” The Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de Musique Folkorique Canadienne 40, no. Spring 2006 (Spring 2006): 1–11.

Konagaya, Hideyo. “Taiko as Performance: Creating Japanese American Traditions.” The Japanese Journal of American Studies, no. 12 (2001): 105–24.

———. “Taiko No Hyōshō to Masukyuriniti No Hōchiku- Minzoku Dentō Ni Yoru Nihonjin to Nikkei Amerika-Jin No Teikō 太鼓の表象とマスキュリニティの構築-民俗伝統による日本人と日系アメリカ人の抵抗.” Amerika Taiheiyō Kenkyū アメリカ太平洋研究 [Pacific and American Studies] 2, no. 3 (2002): 113–27.

Lam, Joseph S. C. “Embracing ‘Asian American Music’ as an Heuristic Device.” Journal of Asian American Studies 2, no. 1 (1999): 29–60.

Lem, Brenda Joy. “Inner Truth Taiko Dojo.” GEMS – Gender, Education, Music & Society 4 (2008): 1–10.

Malm, William P. “An Introduction to Taiko Drum Music in the Japanese No Drama.” Ethnomusicology 4, no. 2 (May 1960): 75–78.

———. “Shoden: A Study in Tokyo Festival Music. When Is Variation an Improvisation?” Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 7 (1975): 44–66.

Matsue, Jennifer Milioto. “Drumming to One’s Own Beat: Japanese Taiko and the Challenge to Genre.” Ethnomusicology60, no. 1 (2016): 22–52. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.60.1.0022.

McNicol, Tony. “Drum Songs: The Intoxicating Music of Hachijojima.” Wingspan, January 2006.

Mogi, Hitoshi. “Osuwa Daiko (Part 1) 御諏訪太鼓 ①.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 33 (2008): 78–82.

———. “Osuwa Daiko (Part 2) 御諏訪太鼓 ②.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 34 (2009): 64–69.

———. “Osuwa Daiko (Part 3) 御諏訪太鼓 ③.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 35 (2010): 74–79.

———. “Oedo Sukeroku Taiko 大江戸助六太鼓.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 36 (May 2010): 34–41.

Morishita, Shuji. “Sado Ondekoza Ni Okero Jimoto Sōsha to Beikoku Nikkei Sōsha No Taiko Ensō No Hikaku 佐渡鬼太鼓における地元奏者と米国日系奏者の太鼓演奏の比較.” Niigata Daigaku Kyōiku Ningen Kagakubu Kiyō Jinbun, Shakaigaku-Hen 新潟大学教育人間科学部紀要 人文・社会科学編 [Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences. Humanities and Social Sciences of Niigata University] 9, no. 1 (October 2006): 101–5.

Navarro, Mireya. “Young Japanese-Americans Honor Ethnic Roots.” The New York Times, August 2, 2004.

Nozawa, Toyoichi, and Chihiro Nishijima. “Ishikawa-Ken Chihō No Kenka Taiko Uchi Kyōgikai: Hi-Japanesuku, Hi-Ekizochishizumu Na Chiiki Bunka 石川県能地方の県下太鼓打協議会: 非ジャパネスク, 非エキゾチシズムな地域文化.” Ningen Shakai Kankyō Kenkyū 人間社会環境研究 [Human and Socio-Environment Studies] 20 (2010): 55–71.

Oguchi, Daihachi. “Oguchi Daihachi Ni Kiku Wadaiko Ongaku No Reimeiki 小口大八に聞く 和太鼓音楽の黎明期.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 11 (April 1995): 6–15.

Oliva, Costantino. “The Musical Ludo Mix of Taiko No Tatsujin.” Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association 5, no. 2 (2021): 131–60.

Olsen, Dale A. “Japanese Music in Brazil.” Asian Music 14, no. 1 (1982): 111–31.

O’Mahoney, Terry. “Kodo: Japanese Taiko Masters.” Percussive Notes, February 1998, 6–10.

Otsuka, Chie. “Beikoku Ni Okeru Wadaiko No Hatten 米国における和太鼓の発展.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 16 (May 1998): 45–52.

Pachter, Benjamin. “Displaying ‘Japan’: Kumidaiko and the Exhibition of Culture at Walt Disney World.” Asian Musicology 14 (2009): 84–124.

Powell, Kimberly. “Drumming Against the Quiet: The Sounds of Asian American Identity in an Amorphous Landscape.” Qualitative Inquiry 14, no. 6 (2008): 901–25.

———. “Composing Sound Identity in Taiko Drumming.” Anthropology & Education Quarterly 43, no. 1 (March 2012): 101–19.

Shikuma, Stan. “On Ensemble: Taiko and Beyond.” International Examiner, July 8, 2013, 11 edition.

Steinberg, Michael. “East, West Mix so-so Musically.” Boston Globe, July 26, 1976.

Sutton, R. Anderson. “Drumming in Okinawan Classical Music: A Catalogue of Gestures.” Dance Research Journal 13, no. 1 (Autumn 1980): 17–28.

Takata, Takeshi. “The Thundering World of the Taiko.” Look Japan, January 1998.

Taylor, Robert. “Drum-Beating, Flute-Playing Marathoners in Lively Show.” Boston Evening Globe, May 11, 1976.

The Japan Times. “Sado Folk Music Group To Perform in Tokyo.” February 12, 1976.

Tosha, Naritoshi. “Introduction to Japanese Percussion Instruments.” Percussive Notes January 1984 (1984): 54–59.

———. “Japanese Traditional Percussion Instruments and Their Music.” Percussive Notes January 1984, no. 45–53 (1984).

Wong, Deborah. “Asian American Improvisation in Chicago: Tatsu Aoki and the ‘New’ Japanese American Taiko.” Critical Studies in Improvisation 1, no. 3 (2006).

Yagi, Junichi. “Achieving (a)Synchrony through Choral Chanting: Co-Operative Corrections in Taiko Ensemble Rehearsals.” Journal of Pragmatics 195 (July 2022): 48–68. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.05.001.

Yagi, Yasuyuki. “Furusato No Taiko – Nagasaki-Ken Ni Okeru Kyōdo Geinō No Sōshutsu to Chiiki Bunka No Yukue ふるさとの太鼓ー長崎県における郷土芸能の創出と地域文化のゆくえ.” Jinbun Chiri 人文地理 [Descriptive Geography] 46, no. 6 (1994): 581–603.

Yamami, Brian. “Intabyuu – ‘Nikkei Amerika Taiko No Mirai’: Brian Akira Yamami インタビュー 「日系アメリカ太鼓の未来」 ブリアン・アキラ・ヤマミ.” Taikorojii たいころじい [Taikology] 20 (December 2001): 16–18.

Yamamoto, J. K. “North American Taiko Conference Features ‘Jam’ Session.” The Rafu Shimpo, September 3, 2011.

Yanagawa, Keiichi. “Shinwa to Taikou No Matsuri 親和と対抗.” Shisō 思想 [Thought] 582 (December 1972): 66–77.

Yoon, Paul J. “‘She’s Really Become Japanese Now!’: Taiko Drumming and Asian American Identifications.” American Music19, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 417–38.

———. “Asian Masculinities and Parodic Possibility in Odaiko Solos and Filmic Representations.” Asian Music 40, no. 1 (2009): 100–130.

小嶋茂. “北米タイコの新時代 ─ 第二世代の登場と新しいコミュニティの広がり ─.” Japanese Overseas Migration Musuem Research Bulletin 1 (2006): 61–66.

桑原瑞来. “創作和太鼓とジェンダー–女性奏者の位置づけをめぐって.” Studies in Urban Cultures 6 (2005): 2–17.

REPORTS/THESES/DISSERTATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Codetta Raiteri, Chiara. “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, 2016.

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

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

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

Gruber, William. “Kaze No Daichi Taiko: Convergent Thoughts Colliding Sounds.” Honors Project, Bowling Green State University, 2015. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=honorsprojects.

Itoh, Keiko. “A Journey To Be a Japanese Drama Therapist: An Exploration of Taiko Drumming as a Therapeutic Resource for Drama Therapy.” California Institute of Integral Studies, 1999.

Johnson, Henry. “Japan in New Zealand: Taiko, Authenticity, and Identity in Transcultural Context.” Presented at the Conference: The 23rd Nichibunken International Symposium, The Humanities Division, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2018.

Jürges, Michael. “Taiko in Germany. Journey to the West: Development, Transformation and Appropriation of a Japanese Performing Art.” Heidelberg University, 2015.

Kobayashi, Kim Noriko. “Tracing the Development of Kumi-Daiko in Canada.” Graduate Thesis, The University of British Columbia, 2006.

Koivurinne, Riku. “Performing Tradition and Gender: Analyzing and Comparing Gender Related Discourses in Japanese Professional and Recreational Taiko Drumming.” Master’s Thesis, University of Helsinki, 2016.

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