Shaped by Japanese music
Subtitle: nagauta shamisen in Tokyo
By: Jay Keister.
Series: Current research in ethnomusicology ;; v. 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Kikuoka, Hiroaki, 1928-1999.; Shamisen music -- History and criticism.; Nagauta -- History and criticism.; Music -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Glossary: p.
Table of contents: title: The human life in the music; title: A career in nagauta : Kikuoka Hiroaki; title: Learning nagauta : an ethnographic account of teacher-student relationships; title: Nagauta as social institution : the shaping forces of form; title: Nagauta as cultural document : the shaping of sukeroku; title: The shape of nagauta in the twentieth century : two compositions by Kikuoka; title: Shaped by Japanese music.