Music in Japan Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Name: Music in Japan Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
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ISBN: 9780195144871

ISBN-10: 0195144872

ISBN-13: 9780195144871

Edition: 2004

Authors: Bonnie C. Wade

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Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture is one of the case study volumes in the Global Music Series, edited by Bonnie C. Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell. This volume provides a vivid introduction to the music of contemporary Japan, a nation in which traditional music, Western music, and popular music thrive side by side. This text points out the centrality of Western and Popular musical idioms in Japanese cultural life, exploring how music in Japan has beenprofoundly affected by the interface with other cultures. Additionally, the text discusses the intertextuality of Japanese music, exploring how familiar themes, musical sounds, and structures have been maintained and…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/23/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 8.20" wide x 5.60" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Bonnie Wade earned her B.Mus. from Boston University in 1963, her M.A. in ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1967, and her PhD in ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1971. She taught at Brown University until 1975, when she moved to to the University of California Berkeley, where she is professor of music.



Foreword


Preface


CD Track List



International Interface: Looking Westward


Setting the Scene


"The West" Goes to Japan


Meiji-Period Modernization


World War I and Immediately Following



International Interface: Looking Eastward


Tradition in a Time of Change


Interface in the First Millennium


The Gagaku Ensemble as We Hear It


Aerophones


Chordophones


Membranophones and an Idiophone


Percussion Parts in Gagaku Music


Strokes and Stroke Sequences


Coordinated Percussion Patterns


Gagaku through Time



Focusing Inward and Across Boundaries


Beyond Classical Music Training


Beyond the Palace


Beyond the Temple


Fuzzing of Folk and Popular


Tsugaru syamisen


The Syamisen


Drumming Ensembles


Matsuri bayashi


Within the World of Koto


Keiko Nosaka and the Twenty-stringed Koto


Tsukushi-goto


Yatsuhashi Ryu and "Rokudan"


Ikuta Kengyo and Yamada Kengyo


Michio Miyagi and Shin nihon ongaku


Traditional Music for Koto


Contemporary Composition for Koto


From Theater to Film



Intertextuality in the Theatrical Arts


The No Drama and Ataka


The Staging


The Plays and Musical Setting


The Acting Forces


Movement


The Musicians and Instruments


The Kabuki Theater


From No to Kabuki


Kanjincho


The Musicians


The Music


The Film Men Who Step on the Tiger's Tail



Managing International Interface


Continuing Interface


Looking to the East


Niche Musics from Around the World


Jazz and the Authenticity Issue


Hip-hop in Japan


Continuing the Inward Look


National Cultural Policies


The Choral Phenomenon


Music and the Media


Film Music


Enka


J-pop


Theme Songs


The New York Nexus


Noise



From Japan Outward


Japanese Diasporas


Karaoke


Jazz and "Japaneseness"


Kurasiku ongaku


Sharing the Concern about "Japaneseness"


Expressing "Japaneseness" Aesthetically


The Seasons in Japanese Music


Keiko Abe and the Marimba


Conclusion


Glossary


References


Resources


Index