Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan

Osaka and Beyond
Herausgeber: Tokita, Alison; Ferranti, Hugh De

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. It is the first to draw together research on the interwar musical culture of the Osaka region and addresses comprehensively both Western and non-Western musical practices and genres.

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Produktdetails

• SOAS Studies in Music
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9781409411116
• ISBN-10: 1409411117
• Artikelnr.: 41243384

Autorenporträt

Hugh de Ferranti's published research is on historical and contemporary forms of biwa music, the practice of Japanese music beyond Japanese shores, and music-making among minorities in colonial era Japan. He is the author of Japanese Musical Instruments (OUP 2000) and The Last Biwa Singer (Cornell University East Asia Series 2009). He is Associate Professor in Music at the University of New England. Alison Tokita is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Japanese Traditional Music at the Kyoto City University of Arts, and adjunct Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at Monash University. She has published widely on Japanese narrative music, and is currently working on naniwa-bushi. In recent years she has researched the role of the piano in East Asian musical modernity. She is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (Ashgate 2008), Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia, and Outside Asia: Japanese and Australian Identities and Encounters in Flux.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Osakan Modernity: The Context
1: Locating the Musics of Modern Osaka
2: Aural Osaka: Listening to the Modern City
II: Creation of a Modern Musical Culture
3: Marketing the Performing Arts in Osaka before the Twentieth Century
4: The Growth of Western Art Music Appreciation in Osaka during the 1920s
5: The Piano as a Symbol of Modernity in Prewar Kansai
III: Making and Remaking Music Traditions
6: Naniwa-bushi and Social Debate in Two Postwar Periods: The Russo-Japanese War and the First World War
7: Tateyama Noboru: Osaka, Modernity and Bourgeois Musical Realism for the Koto
8: Modern Forms of Biwa Music in Osaka and the Kansai Region
9: An Alternative Gagaku Tradition: The Gary?kai and Modern Osaka
IV: Hybridity in Kansai Musical Culture
10: Takarazuka and Japanese Modernity
11: Sh?chiku Girls' Opera and 1920s D?tonbori Jazz
V: Osaka and Beyond: Ethnic Minorities and Metropolitan East Asia
12: Music-Making among Koreans in Colonial-Era Osaka
13: Music and Performing Arts of Okinawans in Interwar Osaka
14: The Creation of Exotic Space in the Miyako-odori: 'Ry?ky?' and 'Ch?sen' 1
15: Osaka and Shanghai: Revisiting the Reception of Western Music in Metropolitan Japan