Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar

Ryoto Akiyama, PhD | Postdoctoral researcher


Ryoto Akiyama, PhD conducted his studies in musicology at Osaka University (Japan) and Georg-August-University Göttingen. He earned his doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Letters at Osaka University in 2019 (Doctor of Literature). Since 2019, Dr. Akiyama has been a Cross-border Postdoctoral Fellow (CPD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), affiliated with the Institute of Research in Humanities at Kyoto University (Japan). Additionally, he has served as a visiting scholar at the DIGITAL ORGANOLOGY Research Center at the Musical Instrument Museum of the University of Leipzig. From March 2023, Dr. Akiyama has continued his ongoing JSPS project, entitled “Research on the cultural history of labrosones in the age of nation-building and imperialism in Germany, 1848–1914” (2019–2024), at the Musicological Seminar of Georg-August-University Göttingen. As of April 2023, Dr. Akiyama has assumed the position of Director of the Musical Instrument Collection at the University of Göttingen.





  • Director of the Musical Instrument Collection
  • ERASMUS-coordinator
  • Postdoctoral researcher Cultural Musicology



Selection:

  • Focht, Josef und Ryoto Akiyama, Eine Nürnberger Posaune in Altötting (=Band 3 der Reihe FRAKTAL, Hg. Josef Focht), Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2023 (in Vorbereitung).
  • Akiyama, Ryoto und Josef Focht (Hgg.), Farbe und Atmosphäre im tiefen Schweben – Basstrompete und Bass-/Kontrabasstuba im Orchesterklang Richard Wagners (=LM-enc Library of Musical Instrument Research – encyclopedic an der Forschungsstelle DIGITAL ORGANOLOGY am Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig), Leipzig 2023 (in Vorbereitung).
  • Akiyama, Ryoto. “Brass Ensembles as a Process of Community Building: Participatory Performance and the Posaunenchor,” in: Celebrating Lutheran Music: Scholarly Perspectives at the Quincentenary, edited by Maria Schildt, Mattias Lundberg and Jonas Lundblad, Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2019, pp. 309–22.
  • Akiyama, Ryoto, “‘Sing to the Lord a new song’: The Interaction of Religion and Popular Music in the Case of Posaunenchor in the Protestant Church in Germany,” in: Contemporary Popular Music Studies (= Systematische Musikwissenschaft), edited by Dumnić Vilotijević, Marija and Ivana Medić, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019, pp. 193–201.
  • 秋山良都「ポザウネンコアにおける共属感情の経験—参与型パフォーマンスとしてのブラスバンド」, 『待兼山芸術論叢』，大阪大学大学院文学研究科，第 51 号芸術篇 (2018) (Akiyama, Ryoto, “The Sense of Being Together in Posaunenchors: An Ethnographical Study on the Participatory Brass Performance,” in: Machikaneyama ronso, Arts, 51 (2018), Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University), pp. 31–52.
  • 秋山良都「南西ドイツの寒村から世界の街路へ―西プファルツの出稼ぎ楽師音楽文化史研究序説」，『阪大音楽学報』，大阪大学音楽学研究室，第 15 号 (2018), (Akiyama, Ryoto, „Aus südwestdeutschen verarmten Dörfern auf Straßen der ganzen Welt. Eine Einführung in die musikkulturgeschichtliche Erforschungdes Westpfälzer Wandermusikantentums“, in: Handai Ongakugaku Ho 15 (2018), Department of Musicology, Osaka University), pp. 33–50.
  • 秋山良都「書評『Suzel Ana Reily, Katherine Brucher 編 Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making』」, 『音楽学』，日本音楽学会，第 62 巻 2 号 (Akiyama, Ryoto, “Review: Suzel Ana Reily and Katherine Brucher (eds.), Brass Bands of the World,” in: Ongakugaku 62/2 (2016), pp.102–3.
  • Akiyama, Ryoto, “The Sound of Gemeinschaft: A Fieldwork Investigation of the Posaunenchor in Göttingen,”『阪大音楽学報』，大阪大学音楽学研究室，特別号 (2015) (in: Handai Ongakugaku Ho Special Issue (2015), Department of Musicology, Osaka University), pp.153–5