Yosihiko Tokumaru

Yosihiko Tokumaru studied at the University of Tokyo. He majored in the semiology of music and in ethnomusicology and obtained his doctorate from the Université Laval, Québec. He has taught musicology at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, the Université de Montréal, as well as at the University of California, Los Angeles. Recent publications in western languages include L’aspect mélodique de la musique de syamisen (Paris: Peeters, 2000) and Musics, Signs and Intertextuality (Tokyo: Academia Music, 2005). Tokumaru also co-edited The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 7, East Asia (New York: Routledge, 2002).