This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest organized by the All-Japan Band Association. Identified here for the first time as the world s largest musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and well over 500,000 competitors. The book s insightful contribution to our understanding of both music and education chronicles music learning in Japanese schools and communities. It examines the contest from a range of perspectives, including those of policy makers, adjudicators, conductors and young musicians. The book is an illuminating...
This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest organized by the All-Japan Band Association. I...
Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield of ethnomusicology due to the fact that historical research requires a different set of theories and methods than studies of contemporary practices and many historiographic techniques are rapidly transforming as a result of new technologies. In 2005, Bruno Nettl observed that the term historical ethnomusicology has begun to appear in programs of conferences and in publications (Nettl 2005, 274), and as recently as 2012 scholars similarly noted an increasing concern with the writing of musical histories...
Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield of ethnomusicology due to the fact that historical research...
