Lorraine Plourde, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Media, Society, and the Arts
School of Film and Media Studies

Office: Social Sciences 1028
Phone: 914-251-6623
Fax: 914-251-6603
Email: lorraine.plourde@purchase.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies 10-month program, Stanford University, Yokohama, Japan
M.A., Ethnomusicology, University of Washington
Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Washington
B.A., Music/Asian Studies, Hampshire College

Awards:
Faculty Support Award, Purchase College
Junior Fellowship in Japan Studies (Weatherhead East Asian Institute) dissertation fellowship, Columbia University
Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (DDRA)
Weatherhead East Asian Institute summer training grant, Columbia University
Exchange Researcher, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Shoyu Club scholarship, Japan
Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship-FLAS, University of Washington
Scheps Research Fellowship, Columbia University

Areas of Expertise:
Ethnomusicology, avant-garde aesthetics, popular culture, contemporary Japan

Research Interests:
Avant-garde/experimental music and art, listening and aurality, anthropology of music, popular music studies, fan cultures, department store culture, fascism and aesthetics, anthropology, war, and militarization

Courses taught:
Contemporary Japan: Aesthetics, Politics, Modernity; Popular Culture in Japan; Anthropology of Music and Sound; Performing Arts in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Fieldwork: Qualitative Methods; Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology; College Writing

Publications:
"Disciplined Listening in Tokyo: Onkyo and Non-Intentional Sounds." 2008. Ethnomusicology Spring/Summer 52(2): 270-295.

"Toshiya Tsunoda," in Extract: Portraits of Soundartists. 2007. Vienna: nonvisualobjects. Translation from Japanese.

Recent Presentations and Invited Talks:
"Noisy Writing," Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS) annual meeting, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 2010

"Distracted Listening: Background Music, Noise, and Ambient Sounds in Recessionary Tokyo," Invited Lecture, Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, Tokyo, Japan, July 2010

"Sound, Noise, and Background Music in Everyday Tokyo," American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

"Changed Hearing: Learning to Listen in Sound-Saturated Tokyo," Invited Lecture, Stanford University, Center for East Asian Studies Japan Luncheon Series, 2009

"Talking About 'Difficult Music': Staging Words about Sound in Tokyo's Avant-Garde Music Scene," American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2008

"Pay to Play: Economies of Live Performance in Japan," Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2008

"Consuming Excess: Futurism and the Avant-Garde in Bubble-Era Japan," Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) annual meeting, Long Beach, CA, 2008

"Consuming Words about Sound in Tokyo's Experimental Music Scene," International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2007

"Disciplined Listening in Tokyo," Experience Music Project (EMP), Pop Music Conference, Seattle, WA, 2007

Invited guest at Art Land monthly music discussion series (in Japanese), Tokyo, Japan, 2006