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Margaret Mehl

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Margaret Mehl is an expert on the history of modern Japan. Currently she is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a doctorate from the University of Bonn as well as one from the University of Copenhagen.

After a postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge, Margaret Mehl lectured at the universities of Edinburgh, Stirling and Berlin before moving to Copenhagen in 2001. She has lived in Japan as a researcher on several occasions, affiliated with the University of Tokyo and, more recently, with Waseda University.

Margaret Mehl has published widely on the history of historical writing, education and music in modern Japan. Her previous books include History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Macmillan, ...more

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Margaret Mehl A book, tentatively titled, 'Sounds of Modern Times: Japan’s Changing Musical Culture, 1850-1950.' In this book I intend to both look more closely at …moreA book, tentatively titled, 'Sounds of Modern Times: Japan’s Changing Musical Culture, 1850-1950.' In this book I intend to both look more closely at provincial Japan (so many accounts focus on Tokyo) and at Japan in a global context. I will also write about why music can be such a fascinating field for historians: music is closely connected with almost all aspects of human life. (less)

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Margaret Mehl I have been playing the violin since I was a child. During my last years in high school and first couple of years at University I had a Japanese violi…moreI have been playing the violin since I was a child. During my last years in high school and first couple of years at University I had a Japanese violin teacher. At university, I studied history and Japanese Studies, and I have now been teaching the history of Japan for many years. At some point it seemed natural to combine my interests in music, history and Japan, and to write a book about the history of the violin and Western music in Japan.(less)

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	Japanisch - Sprache des Teufels? 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850-2010 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline and Transformation of the Kangaku Juku 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eine Vergangenheit für die japanische Nation: Die Entstehung des historischen Forschungsinstituts-"Tokyo daigaku Shiryo hensanjo" (1869-1895) ... Universitaires Européennes) (German Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan: The World, the Nation and the Search for a Modern Past 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My interest in breasts is negligible and my interest in eggs is limited to reading whether the ones I buy in the supermarket are organic and/or laid by happy hens. So, when my job as a university lecturer and supervisor of student dissertations required me to read Mieko Kawakami’s book, I was pleasantly surprised – not to mention intrigued – by its first sentence: “If you want to know how poor som Read more of this blog post »

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サウンドとメディアの文化資源学　境界上の音楽

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Margaret Mehl said: " "Bunka shigen" literally means "cultural resources." To my knowledge (and I did ask a few colleagues) "cultural resources studies" is not a common name for an established field of study in English as "bunka shigen gaku" has recently become in Japanes ...more "

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