Margaret Mehl
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Mehl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehl |
| SIGNATURE | MEHL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Music and the Making of Modern Japan
Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country’s rise to a major player on the stage of Western music has been equally spectacular. The connection between these two developments, however, has never been explored. How did making music make Japan modern? How did Japan make music that originated in Europe its own? And what happened to Japan’s traditional music in the process? Music and the Ma…
From Classical to National Scholarship
In 1888, Konakamura Kiyonori published the first book-length history of music in Japan. Written in Japanese, Kabu ongaku ryakushi (A brief history of music and dance) includes two prefaces: one written in kanbun (Sinitic) by Shigeno Yasutsugu and another in English by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Konakamura and Shigeno, both leading scholars in their time, have generally been considered rivals, representing two opposing intellectual schools, kokugaku …
Transmutations of the Confucian Academy in Japan
Japan is well-known for having adopted and adapted Chinese culture on a large scale in the course of its history. However, although the term 書院 (Japanese shoin) can be found in Japan, the type of institution it describes in China and Korea never really took root there. On the other hand, Confucian texts and Confucian approaches to learning formed the basis of education in Japan from ancient times. This article describes what is arguably the most …
Electrified Voices
Reviewed by: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 by Kerim Yasar Margaret Mehl (bio) Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. By Kerim Yasar. Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. xviii, 277 pages. $90.00, cloth; $30.00, paper; $29.99, E-book. Compared to Japan's visual culture, sound and sonic culture in Japan have received little atte…
Between the Global, the National and the Local in Japan
Western visitors to Japan are often surprised at how widely European art music can be heard. The roots of what is arguably one of Japan’s greatest success stories lie in the systematic introduction and dissemination of Western music by the government after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Much research has focused on the government’s role; but how was Western music disseminated and received in different parts of Japan? This article discusses the ro…
Going Native, Going Global
This article reflects on the predominance of classical music from Europe and the marginalization of Japan's traditional music, which motivated the author to write her book Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850 - 2010
Western Art Music in Japan
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The European model and the archive in Japan
The influence of European and especially German historiography on the formation of the modern academic discipline in Japan is undisputed, as is the importance of the German historian Ludwig Rieß. Undeniably, Rieß contributed to the organization of the academic discipline by teaching future historians and taking an active part in the establishment of the Historical Society, as well as by the example of his own research in the history of Japan. But…
A Man's Job? The Kôda Sisters, Violin Playing, and Gender Stereotypes in the Introduction of Western Music in Japan
Playing the violin in Japan was pioneered by women. The first Japanese to study the violin abroad were Kôda Nobu (1870–1946) and Andô Kô (née Kôda, 1878–1963). Both taught at the Tokyo Academy of Music (now Tokyo University of the Arts) after their return. Kôda later opened a piano studio. The article describes their lives and careers and shows how their Western expertise gave them unprecedented opportunities while their gender imposed limitation…
Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan
The establishment of a national education system soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 is recognized as a significant factor in Japan's modernization, hence research on education is concentrated on the state system. However, this development did not mean the disappearance of the juku, the private academies which were so much a feature of the Tokugawa period. Indeed, these played a far greater role than has been appreciated so far and this book…
Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan
The establishment of a national education system soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 is recognized as a significant factor in Japan's modernization, hence research on education is concentrated on the state system. However, this development did not mean the disappearance of the juku, the private academies which were so much a feature of the Tokugawa period. Indeed, these played a far greater role than has been appreciated so far and this book…
Women educators and the confucian tradition in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
Historians of the women's movement in Japan tend to equate the women's movement with opposition to the state and with Western liberal thought. Consequently, women who played a public role and contributed significantly to the modernisation of Japan, but who supported the imperial state, have received little attention. This article will examine the life, thought and activities of Miwada Masako (1843–1927) and Atomi Kakei (1840–1926). Both were educ…
Chinese Learning (kangaku) in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
Japan’s development since the middle of the nineteenth century is usually summarized under the headings ‘modernization’ and ‘westernization’. Such a perspective neglects the importance of indigenous traditions in the shaping of modern Japan, including Chinese learning (kangaku), which had been thoroughly assimilated and had formed the basis of the dominant ideology in the Tokugawa period (1600‐1868). The leaders of the Meiji restoration of 1868 a…
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Preface - Note on Japanese Names and Terms - Introduction - Historiography in the Service of the Meiji Government -The Activities of the Office of Historiography - The Form of Official Historiography - History as an Academic Discipline - History and Ideology in Conflict - Conclusion - Appendix: Hints for Using the Historiographical Institute - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
The mid‐meiji ‘history boom
In January 1893 the journal Waseda bungaku diagnosed a ‘historical fever’. The term described an increased preoccupation with history among the educated public, which found expression in books and articles and a number of new history journals. Although this ‘history boom’ was part of a long‐term phenomenon, the early 1890s were remarkable in two ways. First, intellectuals representing different generations, educational backgrounds and disciplines…
Scholarship and Ideology in Conflict
Suematsu Kenchō in Britain, 1878–1886
Chinese Learning (kangaku) in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
Japan’s development since the middle of the nineteenth century is usually summarized under the headings ‘modernization’ and ‘westernization’. Such a perspective neglects the importance of indigenous traditions in the shaping of modern Japan, including Chinese learning (kangaku), which had been thoroughly assimilated and had formed the basis of the dominant ideology in the Tokugawa period (1600‐1868). The leaders of the Meiji restoration of 1868 a…
The European model and the archive in Japan
The influence of European and especially German historiography on the formation of the modern academic discipline in Japan is undisputed, as is the importance of the German historian Ludwig Rieß. Undeniably, Rieß contributed to the organization of the academic discipline by teaching future historians and taking an active part in the establishment of the Historical Society, as well as by the example of his own research in the history of Japan. But…
A Man's Job? The Kôda Sisters, Violin Playing, and Gender Stereotypes in the Introduction of Western Music in Japan
Playing the violin in Japan was pioneered by women. The first Japanese to study the violin abroad were Kôda Nobu (1870–1946) and Andô Kô (née Kôda, 1878–1963). Both taught at the Tokyo Academy of Music (now Tokyo University of the Arts) after their return. Kôda later opened a piano studio. The article describes their lives and careers and shows how their Western expertise gave them unprecedented opportunities while their gender imposed limitation…
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
Women educators and the confucian tradition in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
Historians of the women's movement in Japan tend to equate the women's movement with opposition to the state and with Western liberal thought. Consequently, women who played a public role and contributed significantly to the modernisation of Japan, but who supported the imperial state, have received little attention. This article will examine the life, thought and activities of Miwada Masako (1843–1927) and Atomi Kakei (1840–1926). Both were educ…
History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Preface - Note on Japanese Names and Terms - Introduction - Historiography in the Service of the Meiji Government -The Activities of the Office of Historiography - The Form of Official Historiography - History as an Academic Discipline - History and Ideology in Conflict - Conclusion - Appendix: Hints for Using the Historiographical Institute - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
Scholarship and Ideology in Conflict
Suematsu Kenchō in Britain, 1878–1886
Scholarship and Ideology in Conflict
Suematsu Kenchō in Britain, 1878–1886
History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Preface - Note on Japanese Names and Terms - Introduction - Historiography in the Service of the Meiji Government -The Activities of the Office of Historiography - The Form of Official Historiography - History as an Academic Discipline - History and Ideology in Conflict - Conclusion - Appendix: Hints for Using the Historiographical Institute - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
The mid‐meiji ‘history boom
In January 1893 the journal Waseda bungaku diagnosed a ‘historical fever’. The term described an increased preoccupation with history among the educated public, which found expression in books and articles and a number of new history journals. Although this ‘history boom’ was part of a long‐term phenomenon, the early 1890s were remarkable in two ways. First, intellectuals representing different generations, educational backgrounds and disciplines…
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
Chinese Learning (kangaku) in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
Japan’s development since the middle of the nineteenth century is usually summarized under the headings ‘modernization’ and ‘westernization’. Such a perspective neglects the importance of indigenous traditions in the shaping of modern Japan, including Chinese learning (kangaku), which had been thoroughly assimilated and had formed the basis of the dominant ideology in the Tokugawa period (1600‐1868). The leaders of the Meiji restoration of 1868 a…
Women educators and the confucian tradition in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
Historians of the women's movement in Japan tend to equate the women's movement with opposition to the state and with Western liberal thought. Consequently, women who played a public role and contributed significantly to the modernisation of Japan, but who supported the imperial state, have received little attention. This article will examine the life, thought and activities of Miwada Masako (1843–1927) and Atomi Kakei (1840–1926). Both were educ…
Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan
The establishment of a national education system soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 is recognized as a significant factor in Japan's modernization, hence research on education is concentrated on the state system. However, this development did not mean the disappearance of the juku, the private academies which were so much a feature of the Tokugawa period. Indeed, these played a far greater role than has been appreciated so far and this book…
Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan
The establishment of a national education system soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 is recognized as a significant factor in Japan's modernization, hence research on education is concentrated on the state system. However, this development did not mean the disappearance of the juku, the private academies which were so much a feature of the Tokugawa period. Indeed, these played a far greater role than has been appreciated so far and this book…
A Man's Job? The Kôda Sisters, Violin Playing, and Gender Stereotypes in the Introduction of Western Music in Japan
Playing the violin in Japan was pioneered by women. The first Japanese to study the violin abroad were Kôda Nobu (1870–1946) and Andô Kô (née Kôda, 1878–1963). Both taught at the Tokyo Academy of Music (now Tokyo University of the Arts) after their return. Kôda later opened a piano studio. The article describes their lives and careers and shows how their Western expertise gave them unprecedented opportunities while their gender imposed limitation…
Western Art Music in Japan
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The European model and the archive in Japan
The influence of European and especially German historiography on the formation of the modern academic discipline in Japan is undisputed, as is the importance of the German historian Ludwig Rieß. Undeniably, Rieß contributed to the organization of the academic discipline by teaching future historians and taking an active part in the establishment of the Historical Society, as well as by the example of his own research in the history of Japan. But…
Going Native, Going Global
This article reflects on the predominance of classical music from Europe and the marginalization of Japan's traditional music, which motivated the author to write her book Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850 - 2010
Between the Global, the National and the Local in Japan
Western visitors to Japan are often surprised at how widely European art music can be heard. The roots of what is arguably one of Japan’s greatest success stories lie in the systematic introduction and dissemination of Western music by the government after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Much research has focused on the government’s role; but how was Western music disseminated and received in different parts of Japan? This article discusses the ro…
Transmutations of the Confucian Academy in Japan
Japan is well-known for having adopted and adapted Chinese culture on a large scale in the course of its history. However, although the term 書院 (Japanese shoin) can be found in Japan, the type of institution it describes in China and Korea never really took root there. On the other hand, Confucian texts and Confucian approaches to learning formed the basis of education in Japan from ancient times. This article describes what is arguably the most …
Electrified Voices
Reviewed by: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 by Kerim Yasar Margaret Mehl (bio) Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. By Kerim Yasar. Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. xviii, 277 pages. $90.00, cloth; $30.00, paper; $29.99, E-book. Compared to Japan's visual culture, sound and sonic culture in Japan have received little atte…
From Classical to National Scholarship
In 1888, Konakamura Kiyonori published the first book-length history of music in Japan. Written in Japanese, Kabu ongaku ryakushi (A brief history of music and dance) includes two prefaces: one written in kanbun (Sinitic) by Shigeno Yasutsugu and another in English by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Konakamura and Shigeno, both leading scholars in their time, have generally been considered rivals, representing two opposing intellectual schools, kokugaku …
Music and the Making of Modern Japan
Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country’s rise to a major player on the stage of Western music has been equally spectacular. The connection between these two developments, however, has never been explored. How did making music make Japan modern? How did Japan make music that originated in Europe its own? And what happened to Japan’s traditional music in the process? Music and the Ma…
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