Dr. Daniel Schnee

初めまして!

Hello, and welcome to my official blog. I am Daniel Schnee, an anthropologist who researches how music plays a part in a particular society or culture (ethnomusicology): what music means, and how composers, improvisers, performers and audiences create or convey that meaning, learning about the internal logic of society through ethnography as much as study of its cultural objects (my specialty being East Asian intangible culture: improvisation, aesthetic concepts, Zen Buddhism, etc.). I can then apply the results to teaching, publishing, business, and/or a standard of law: assessing and/or producing facts about music that are applicable as evidence in court cases over copyright, cultural appropriation, interpretation of cultural policy, case selection criteria; establishing just how juridical a claim is.

I am also a graphic score composer, saxophonist, and percussionist who has worked internationally with many artists (including twenty one different Juno and Grammy™ Award winners) such as INXS, Rod Stewart, Angelique Kidjo, Colin Hay (Men At Work), J-Pop star Ayumi Hamasaki, Will Calhoun, Yamantaka EYƎ, Alfie Zappacosta, Matt Brubeck, Leela Gilday, Orlando “Maraca” Valle, Bernie Worrell, Dave Samuels, Doug Wimbish, Slide Hampton, and many others.

I’ve studied South Indian Karnatak music with Sri Kadri Gopalnath and Sri Trichy Sankaran, as well as improvisation with Pulitzer Prize winning jazz icon Ornette Coleman, and multi-media art practice with renowned Japanese painter Shozo Shimamoto. 

日本語を話すことができます… 大好きです! 私はベトナム語とドイツ語も話すことができます。大阪弁を話すことを本当に楽しんでいます。どうぞよろしくお願いします。

Click on the highlighted areas to being exploring: 

ASIA

Asian Philosophy: India
Asian Philosophy: China
Asian Philosophy: Korea and Early Japan
Asian Philosophy: Japan
New! Chinese Literary Criticism: Lu Chi 文賦 (On Literature)
Ancient/Medieval Comic Stories: China
The Art of Chinese Porcelain: Ming & Qing Dynasties
Chinese Influence on Japanese Culture: Art & Buddhism
Pre-Buddhist Art: Japan
East Asian Aesthetic Terminology: Japan Part One of Two
East Asian Aesthetic Terminology: China
East Asian Aesthetic Terminology: Korea
Rare Japanese Recordings: BusRatch
GUTAI Art Collective: Manifesto
Vietnamese Language: Part One of Four.
Japanese Language: Fluency
Japanese Noh Theater: Aesthetics
Japanese Art: The Idea of Nansensu
Basic Music Terminology in Japanese

BUDDHISM

Introduction To Buddhism: Part One of Two
History of Buddhism: 6500 BCE – 1300 BCE
Early Buddhist Terminology: India

IMPROVISATION

Music of India: Algebraic Structure
Music of India: Raga
Music of India: Yati
Jazz Improvisation and Indian Music
Jazz Improvisation and Arabian Music
Jazz Improvisation and Turkish Music
Improvisation in Traditional Korean Music
Improvisation and Meditation
Microtones in Vietnamese and Japanese Music
Quarter-Tone Charts: Saxophone
Multiphonics Chart: Saxophone
Woodwind Embouchure: Saxophone
Ornette Coleman: Zen Buddhism and Harmolodic Theory.
Odd Time Signatures: Introduction

LITERATURE & SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Truth In Painting: Derrida
Western Philosophy: Preview
Western Philosophy: Mythology To Hellenism
Western Philosophy: Medieval To The Enlightenment
Western Philosophy: Late Enlightenment to Modernity
Western Philosophy: Postmodernism to MetaModernism
History of Sociology: Part One of Four
What Is Critical Theory? Art
Introduction to the DUNE novels: Part One of Two
The Poetry of Robert Okaji: Review and Analysis.
The Analects of Na-neun

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