Jay Keister

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology

Email: Keister@colorado.edu
Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Ekeister/
Office Location: Room N124, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-492-5496
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

Jay Keister, Associate Professor, is an Ethnomusicologist and scholar of Japanese music. Dr. Keister received the MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research concerns individual agency in music, embodiment of music traditions, aesthetics of music, and traditional social structures in contemporary musical practice. His book Shaped by Japanese Music (2004 NY: Routledge) is the result of his research on traditional performance practice in contemporary Japan and his training in traditional Japanese strings, flutes and percussion. He has published articles on Japanese music in the journals Asian Music and The World of Music.