Chasing Kadekaru
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Music, School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: King, Kirk
issued: 2025-06-10T18:27:35Z
issued: 2025
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Chasing Kadekaru examines the life and music of Okinawan minyō (“folk song”) legend Kadekaru Rinshō (1920 to 1999) in two parts. The first is a research-based novel in which the protagonist interacts with real-life people who knew Kadekaru Rinshō. These people are fellow musicians, collaborators, friends, and family. Through these encounters, a story of Kadekaru’s life and music unfolds. This first part is meant to be enjoyed as a novel by even the non-music specialist. The second part is a chapter-by-chapter guide to the first part of the dissertation (the novel) with notes, citations, analyses, and other relevant data. The dissertation aims to show the utility of biographical research and studies of the individual in ethnomusicology—approaches that have been controversial in the discipline historically but have gained popularity since the 1990s, and particularly in the last decade. Composed in a non-traditional format, the dissertation also demonstrates the potential for arts-based research to promote new modes of knowledge sharing in academic discourse.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/91323
note: Chasing Kadekaru by Kirk King M.A. World Music Studies, The University of Sheffield, 2010 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Music – Ethnomusicology) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) June 2025 Ó Kirk King, 2025 ii The following individuals certify that they have read and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance the dissertation titled Chasing Kadekaru, submitted by Kirk King in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music – Ethnomusicology. Examining Committee: Nathan Hesselink, Professor, School of Music, UBC Supervisor Michael Tenzer, Professor, School of Music, UBC Co-supervisor Candace Galla, Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Christina Yi, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, UBC University Examiner Brandon Konoval, Associate Professor, School of Music, UBC University Examiner Anne McKnight, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature & Language, University of California, Riverside External Examiner iii Abstract Chasing Kadekaru examines the life and music of Okinawan minyō (“folk song”) legend Kadekaru Rinshō (1920 to 1999) in two parts. The first is a research-based novel in which the protagonist interacts with real-life people who knew Kadekaru Rinshō. These people are fellow musicians, collaborators, friends, and family. Through these encounters, a story of Kadekaru’s life and music unfolds. This first part is meant to be enjoyed as a novel by even the non-music specialist. The second part is a chapter-by-chapter guide to the first part of the dissertation (the novel) with notes, citations, analyses, and other relevant data. The dissertation aims to show the utility of biographical research and studies of the individual in ethnomusicology—approaches t…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2025-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0449084
language: eng
degree discipline: Music - Ethnomusicology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Hesselink, Nathan
contributor: Tenzer, Michael
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91323