Serena Yang (Ph.D. student in
musicology) was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Taiwanese
government to support her research and graduate studies. Her
article, “Mode and Atonality in Japanese Music: Pitch Structure
in Minoru Miki’s Jo no kyoku” was recently published in
the Music
Research Forum (University of Cincinnati).
Serena Yang is a postdoctoral fellow for the Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science.
Her research interests include twentieth- and
twenty-first-century music, interdisciplinary studies, cultural
studies, and Asian music. Yang holds a bachelor’s degree in
violin from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, and a
master’s degree in music history from the University of
Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music under Bruce McClung.
