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William P. Malm, Professor Emeritus of Music and Ethnomusicology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    East Asian music and ethnomusicology; instruments, instrumentation, and theory in East Asia; Japanese music and drama.

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1959
  • MM, Composition, Northwestern University
  • BM, Composition, Northwestern University

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

  • Koizumi Fumio Prize for Ethnomusicology, 1993
  • Michigan Legislature Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1990
  • Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, national University of Australia, Canberra, 1987
  • Alumni Merit Award, School of Music, University of Michigan, 1986
  • Japan Foundation Fellowship, 1983-1984
  • Ernest Block Professorship in Music, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
  • Andrew Mellon Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975
  • Resident Scholar, Villa Serbelloni, Italy, 1975
  • Director, Hologram Research Project, Exxon Education Foundation, 1973
  • Henry Russel Award for Outstanding Teaching and Promise in Research, 1966

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (CD included), 2000.
  • Theater as Music: The Bunraku Play Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: An Exemplary Tale of Womanly Virtue, with C. Andrew Gerstle and Kiyoshi Inobe. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 4. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, 288 pp., 2 cassettes, 1990.
  • Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music, University of California Press, 1986.
  • Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia, Prentice-Hall, 1967.
  • Nagauta: The Heart of Kabuki Music, Tuttle, 1963.
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