The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music
By: edited by Alison McQueen Tokita and David W. Hughes.
Contributors: Tokita, Alison, 1947-; Hughes, David W., Dr.
Series: SOAS musicology series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754656999
Subjects: Music -- Japan -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ), audio/videography (p.   ), and index.
Table of contents: title: Context and change in Japanese music / Alison Tokita and David Hughes; title: Court and Buddhist music (1) : history of gagaku and shōmyō / Steven G. Nelson; title: Court and Buddhist music (2) : music of gagaku and shōmyō / Steven G. Nelson; title: The musical narrative of the Tale of the Heike / Komoda Haruko; title: The Kyushu biwa traditions / Hugh de Ferranti; title: Nō and kyōgen : music from the medieval theatre / Fujita Takanori; title: The shakuhachi and its music / Tsukitani Tsuneko; title: Sōkyoku and jiuta : Edo-period chamber music / Philip Flavin; title: Gidayū-bushi : music of the bunraku puppet theatre / Yamada Chieko; title: Music in kabuki : more than meets the eye / Alison McQueen Tokita; title: Popular music before the Meiji period / Gerald Groemer; title: Folk music : from local to national to global / David W. Hughes; title: The music of Ryukyu / Robin Thompson; title: The music of the Ainu / Chiba Nobuhiko; title: Popular music in modern Japan / Christine Yano and Hosokawa Shuhei; title: Western-influenced "classical" music in Japan / Judith Ann Herd.