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http://www.princeton.edu … From cash flow to rhyme flow: Music scholar Manabe takes eclectic path to Princeton
by Emily Aronson
Noriko Manabe's path to teaching music at Princeton is as unconventional and eclectic as the musical cultures and styles she studies.

Manabe came to academia from the investment and consulting fields, where she was a leading analyst of the technology and media industries in Japan and often was cited in the press as an authority on major companies such as Sony and Nintendo. As she traveled around the world for business, she continued to feed her own love for music, growing increasingly fascinated by the cultural and social contexts of global music.

Even as she excelled in the financial arena, Manabe held onto a lifelong desire to pursue the study of music more fully. In 2003, she decided to reinvent her career and enrolled in the City University of New York's graduate program in music.

"Going to graduate school in music was a longheld aspiration of mine -- something I had considered since college," Manabe said. After a successful career in business, she felt that the time was finally right to pursue music studies full time. 
  
She earned her Ph.D. last year with a double concentration in ethnomusicology and music theory, then joined the Princeton music faculty in the fall. In her first year at the University, she quickly has generated interest across campus in her work on popular music in the West, Japan and Latin America. Read more: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive

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