Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan

ISBN-13: 9781138791404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 276 str.

Jennifer Milioto Matsue

Opis

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Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan "explores a diversity of musics being performed in Japan today, ranging from court genres to hardcore rock. Discussion of contemporary musical practice is situated within broader frames of musical and sociopolitical history. "

Part I: Japanese Music in Cultural Context "provides an overview of key characteristics of Japanese culture that inform the performance of many musics, addressing how geography, politics, religion, and cultural exchange have long shaped the quality of Japanese artistic expressions. "Part II: Japanese Music and Percussion" looks at the pervasiveness of percussion in musical styles throughout Japan s history, demonstrating in the process how a focus on percussive traditions in Japanese music represents a particularly rich portal for understanding the performance of a range of musics in contemporary Japan. "Part III: Performing Percussion in Contemporary Japan" is organized around four case studies of specific sites in which individuals and groups make percussion-based music in a unique urban setting. Each chapter paints a vivid picture of its respective site, the music that is practiced, and the pedagogy and creative processes of each group and the people involved, while also connecting with larger issues at play in the performance of contemporary Japanese music.

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Spis treści

List of Figures  Musical Examples on Compact Disc  List of Examples on Companion Website  About the Author  Series Foreword by Michael B. Bakan  Preface  Maps  East Asian Historical Periods  Part I. Japanese Music and Culture  1. Japanese Music in Geographical, Historical and Cultural Context  2. Japanese Cultural Identity and Musical Modernity  Part II. Sounding Japan  3. Performing Music of the Pre-Modern Era  4. Making Music in the Modern Era  Part III. Focusing In: Identity, Meaning and Japanese Drumming in Kyoto  5. Taiko and the Marketing of Tradition in Kyoto  6. Four Case Studies and Some Conclusions:  Tosha Rōetsu and the Pontochō Okeiko  Basara and the One-Room Schoolhouse  Matsuri-shū and the Kyoto Taiko Center  Murasaki Daiko and the Proper Dōjō   7. Conclusion: The Future of Japanese Music  Appendices: A. "Echigojishi" (Yoshizumi Kojūrō-fu for shamisen)  B. "Echigojishi" (Kineya bunkafu for shamisen)  C. "Echigojishi" (Japanese score for ko-tsuzumi and ō-tsuzumi by Tosha Rōetsu)  D. "Echigojishi" (Western score for ko-tsuzumi and ō-tsuzumi by Yamauchi Reach)  Glossary  Additional Resources

O autorze

Jennifer Milioto Matsue is an Associate Professor at Union College and specializes in modern Japanese music and culture.