Wade, Bonnie C.

Music in Japan: experiencing music, expressing culture/ Bonnie C. Wade. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xxii, 184 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-174), filmography (p. 174-176), and index.

1. International Interface: Looking Westward


Setting the Scene


"The West" Goes to Japan


Meiji-Period Modernization


World War I and Immediately Following


2. International Interface: Looking Eastward


Tradition in a Time of Change


Interface in the First Millennium


The Gagaku Ensemble as We Hear It


Aerophones


Chordophones


Membranophone and an Idiophone


Percussion Parts in Gagaku Music


Strokes and Stroke Sequences


Coordinated Percussion Patterns


Gagaku through Time


3. Focusing Inward and Across Boundaries


Beyond Classical Music Training


Beyond the Palace


Beyond the Temple


Fuzzing of Folk and Popular


Tsugaru syamisen


The Syamisen


Drumming Ensembles


Matsuri bayashi


Within the World of Koto


Keiko Nosaka and the Twenty-stringed Koto


Tsukushi-goto


Yatsuhashi Ryu and "Rokudan"


Ikuta Kengyo and Yamada Kengyo


Michio Migyai and Shin nihon ongaku


Traditional Music for Koto


Contemporary Composition for Koto


From Theater to Film


4. Intertextuality in the Theatrical Arts


The No Drama and Ataka


The Staging


The Plays and Musical Setting


The Acting Forces


Movement


The Musicians and Instruments


The Kabuki Theater


From No to Kabuki


Kanjincho


The Musicians


The Music


The Film Men Who Step on the Tiger's Tail


5. Managing International Interface


Continuing Interface


Looking to the East


Niche Musics from Around the World


Jazz and the Authenticity Issue


Hip-hop in Japan


Continuing the Inward Look


National Cultural Policies


The Choral Phenomenon


Music and the Media


Film Music


Enka


J-pop


Theme Songs


The New York Nexus


Noise


6. From Japan Outward


Japanese Diasporas


Karaoke


Jazz and "Japaneseness"


Kurasiku ongaku


Sharing the concern about "Japaneseness"


Expressing "Japaneseness" Aesthetically


The Seasons in Japanese Music


Keko Abe and the Marimba


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