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Songs From The Edge Of Japan Music Making In Yaeyama And Okinawa

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Author : Matt Gillan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01

Songs From The Edge Of Japan Music Making In Yaeyama And Okinawa written by Matt Gillan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Music categories.

Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from this island prefecture in the very south of Japan have found success as performers and recording artists, and have been featured in a number of hit films and television dramas. In particular, the Yaeyama region in the south of Okinawa has long been known as a region rich in performing arts, and Yaeyaman musicians such as BEGIN, Daiku Tetsuhiro, and Natsukawa Rimi have been at the forefront of the recent Okinawan music boom. This popularity of Okinawan music represents only the surface of a diverse and thriving musical culture within modern-day Yaeyama. Traditional music continues to be an important component of traditional ritual and social life in the islands, while Yaeyama's unique geographical and cultural position at the very edge of Japan have produced varied discourses surrounding issues such as tradition versus modernity, preservation, and cultural identity. Songs from the Edge of Japan explores some of the reasons for the high profile of Yaeyaman music in recent years, both inside and outside Yaeyama. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out since 2000, the book uses interviews, articles from the popular media, musical and lyrical analysis of field and commercial recordings, as well as the author's experiences as a performer of Yaeyaman and Okinawan music, to paint a picture of what it means to perform Yaeyaman music in the 21st century.

Songs From The Edge Of Japan Music Making In Yaeyama And Okinawa

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Author : Matt Gillan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01

Traditional Folk Song In Modern Japan

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Author : David W. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Global Oriental
Release Date : 2008-01-31

Traditional Folk Song In Modern Japan written by David W. Hughes and has been published by Global Oriental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-31 with Music categories.

The Japanese say that ‘folk song is the heart’s home town’. Traditional folk songs (min’yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. Today, however, they are also taught as a quasi-art music, arranged for stage and television, quoted in Westernized popular songs and so forth.

Folk Songs Of Japan

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Author : Donald Paul Berger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Folk Songs Of Japan written by Donald Paul Berger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Folk music categories.

Tears Of Longing

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Author : Christine Yano
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2002-07-01

Tears Of Longing written by Christine Yano and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-01 with Music categories.

Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka’s primary audience, this music—of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers—evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of “Japaneseness.” Overlooked in this emotional invocation of the past, however, are the powerful commercial forces that, since the 1970s, have shaped the consumption of enka and its version of national identity. Informed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author’s extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes “Japan.”

Songs Of Japan

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Author : Granville Bantock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Songs Of Japan written by Granville Bantock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Japan categories.

A Life Adrift

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Author : Soeda Azembo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-11-21

A Life Adrift written by Soeda Azembo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Azembo created enka songs sung by tenant farmers in rural hinterlands and factory hands in Tokyo and Osaka. Although his work is still largely unknown outside Japan, his poems and lyrics were so well known at his career’s peak that a single verse served as shorthand expressing popular attitudes about political corruption, sex scandals, spiralling prices, war, and love of motherland. As these categories attest, he embedded in his songs contemporary views on class conflict, gender relations, and racial attitudes toward international rivals. Ordinary people valued Azembo’s music because it was of them and for them. They also appreciated it for being distinctively modern and home-grown, qualities rare among the cultural innovations that flooded into Japan from the mid-nineteenth century. A Life Adrift stands out as the only memoir of its kind, one written first-hand by a leader in the world of enka singing.