Focus
Subtitle: music in contemporary Japan
By: Jennifer Milioto Matsue
Series: Focus on world music; Focus on world music
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781138791381; 9781138791404
Subjects: Ethnomusicology; Social aspects; Music; Textbooks; Performance; History and criticism
Other titles: Music in contemporary Japan
Notes: Companion CD contains Japanese music examples (in MP3 format) that illustrate specific elements and key genres introduced in the text. A companion website includes additional audio-visual sources.

"Glossary": pages 233-244.

"Visit the companion website"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266), filmography (page 266), and index.

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Table of contents: title: Japanese music and culture. Japanese music in geographical, historical and cultural context ; Japanese cultural identity and musical modernity; title: Sounding Japan. Performing music of the pre-modern Japan ; Making music in the modern era; title: Focusing in : identity, meaning and Japanese drumming in Kyoto. Taiko and the marketing of tradition in Kyoto ; Four case studies and some conclusions; title: Conclusion. The future of Japanese music; title: Appendices A-D. "Echigojishi" [score in 4 versions: Japanese (3) and Western (1)].