Full Description
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 been profoundly 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 transformed across the various traditions of Japanese performing arts through time. The text features eyewitness accounts of performances, interviews with performers, and a 70-minute CD containing examples of music discussed in the text.
Contents
Foreword:
Preface:
CD Track List:
1. International Interface: Looking Westward
Setting the Scene
"The West" Goes to Japan
Meiji-Period Modernization
World War I and Immediately Following
2. 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
3. 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 Kengyd=o:
Michio Migyai and Shin nihon ongaku
Traditional Music for Koto
Contemporary Composition for Koto:
From Theater to Film
4. 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
5. 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:
6. 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:
