Yayoi Uno Everett is a native of Yokohama, Japan, and an associate professor of Music Theory at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her research focuses on the analysis of postwar art music, film, and opera from the perspectives of semiotics, narratology, multimedia theories, cultural studies, and East Asian aesthetics. She has served on PhD dissertation committees at University of Helsinki, Northwestern University, and Temple University, and guest taught a graduate seminar on Topic Theory and Intertextuality at University of Chicago (2016).
She is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled Opera in Flux: Staging, Narrative, Identity (provisional title) under contract with University of Michigan Press.
Everett served as the associate editor of Music Theory Spectrum (2015-18). She served as president for Music Theory Southeast (2010-12) and as member/chair for Society of Music Theory’s Executive Board, Publication Subvention, and Diversity committees (1998-2009). She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from UIC’s Creativity Activity Award, Dean’s Research Award, NEAC Research Fellowship from the Association of Asian Studies, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, the Japan Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Asian Council, and the National Endowment for Humanities.
From Juilliard to Fluxus and traditional Japanese music, this essay, which traces the multifaceted music of Toshi Ichiyanagi, is based on a C-MAP workshop led by Yayoi Uno Everett in January 2012. [1] This presentation explores Ichiyanagi Toshi’s philosophy and aesthetics during the years 1961–64, when he was composing indeterminate music and graphic scores, and…
