Dr. Jennifer Milioto Matsue is assistant professor of performing arts and East Asian Studies at Union College. She is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in Japanese popular and traditional music. She teaches courses on Japanese popular music and culture, East Asian traditional music, world music, gender and sexuality in music, and global popular music. She has held teaching posts at the University of Chicago, Sophia University in Tokyo and Dartmouth College. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on underground bands in Tokyo. She is working on a book titled Mamonaku Tokyo Desu! (Next Stop Tokyo!): Underground Music-Making in Contemporary Tokyo.

Dr. Matsue will give a lecture on Thursday, April 21 at 8:00 p.m. in Griffiths 123. On Friday, April 22, she will also talk on "Women Making Music in Contemporary Japan," 10:50-11:50am in Griffiths 15.  Although this is specifically for the Musics of the World course, others are welcome to attend. This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Initiative and by a grant from the Freeman Foundation.