About the Author

William P. Malm is professor emeritus of ethnomusicology and retired director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments and the Japanese Music Study Groupat The University of Michigan. Among his publications are Nagauta: The Heart of Kabuki Music (1963); Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia (1966); Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music (1986); Theater as Music: The Bunraku Play "Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: An Exemplary Tale of Womanly Virtue" (1990, with C. Andrew Gerstle and Kiyoshi Inobe), and Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (2001, a revised edition of his classic 1959 work Japanese Music and Musical Instruments). As a teacher at Michigan he received the Henry Russell, Alumni Merit, and Legislature awards, and in 1993 he was given the Koizumi Fumio Prize in Ethnomusicology.