Online Catalogue Launch & Talk Event

MARK “FROSTY” MCNEIlL

Mark “Frosty” McNeill is a DJ, radio producer, sonic curator, filmmaker and creative community builder based in Los Angeles. He’s the founder of dublab.com, a pioneering web radio station that has been exploring wide-spectrum music since 1999. McNeill hosts Celsius Drop, a weekly dublab radio show and has produced long-running programs for Red Bull Radio, Marfa Public Radio, and KPFK 90.7fm. McNeill co-curated/produced the Pacific Breeze compilations of Japanese City Pop music for Light in the Attic Records as well as Somewhere Between, a forthcoming album focused on the more experimental side of Japanese pop. His output on a multitude of international media platforms has focused on sharing transcendent sonic experiences.

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TOSHIYUKI OHWADA

Toshiyuki Ohwada is a Professor of American Studies at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of On American Music: From Minstrel Show, Blues to Hip Hop (in Japanese), awarded the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2011. His research interests include Japanese and American popular music, Afro Asia, and he also writes about literature and film on both sides of the Pacific. He has co-authored three books on hip hop (Cultural Studies of Hip Hop, Vol. 1, 2, 3) and a book on music in Haruki Murakami’s works (100 Songs of Haruki Murakami). As for the year 2020-21, he stays in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute, and will conduct research on the resurgence of “City Pop” in Asia and the West.

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