Linda Fujie

Linda Fujie received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University, where she was a student of Dieter Christensen and Adelaida Schramm. She conducted field research in Japan, mainly concerning urban festival and popular music, under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Columbia University, and Colby College. Her interest in overseas Japanese culture also resulted in research on Japanese-American and Japanese-Brazilian communities, the latter funded by the German Music...See more

Linda Fujie received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University, where she was a student of Dieter Christensen and Adelaida Schramm. She conducted field research in Japan, mainly concerning urban festival and popular music, under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Columbia University, and Colby College. Her interest in overseas Japanese culture also resulted in research on Japanese-American and Japanese-Brazilian communities, the latter funded by the German Music Council. Her research has been published in the Yearbook for Traditional Music, in publications on popular music, and in Japanese journals. She taught at Colby College as Assistant Professor, at the East Asian Institute of the Free University of Berlin and lectured on ethnomusicology at the University of Bamberg. See less