Encounters with Music

Encounters with Music: How to be in Contact with Music in the 21st Century
Akeo Okada

186 mm x 130 mm
208 pages
JPY 1,700
ISBN 9784790717300
Pub date: April 2019

How can you discover music that will change your life?
Music in online videos, music composed by AI, a soothing music boom, the absence of charismatic music leaders…  The author, specialized in the history of Western music, challenges the analysis of what is happening in music now and presents how to enjoy music in the future.

Points of Appeal
1) Thought-provoking reflections on human through music
2) Many music recommendations by the author

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Can you own music?: About “My Song”

Chapter 2 Community in which  music is God

Chapter 3 Letting Sake listen to Mozart

Chapter 4 Music, electricity, and ghosts

Chapter 5 Music on the internet: Music and taboo

Chapter 6 Soothing music can’t heal you!

Chapter 7 Can AI replace Mozart?

Chapter 8 Walk, and look for the substandard!

Reviews
“The book is backed by a deep love of music and an inquisitive mind, and can be sympathetic.”―Akiya Nakamura, musicology researcher

“A truly remarkable media theory!”― Shigeru Matsui, poet and informatics researcher

“This recommendation of guerrilla warfare is nothing less than a critique of 21st century society itself.”―Ryota Fukushima, literary critic

Author Information
Akeo Okada
Born 1960, Kyoto. Musicologist. Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. Specialises in the history of Western music from the 19th to the early 20th century. Became interested in jazz piano about eight years ago and still takes monthly lessons.