Bigenho Michelle Bigenho

Intimate Distance (eBook, PDF)

Andean Music in Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to play "e;someone else's music"e;? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional musicians. Michelle Bigenho conducted part of her ethnographic research while performing with Bolivian musicians as they toured Japan. Drawing on interviews with Bolivian musicians as well as Japanese fans and performers of these traditions, Bigenho explores how transcultural intimacy is produced at the site of Andean music and its performances.Bolivians and Japanese involved in these musical practices often express narratives of intimacy and racial belonging that reference shared but unspecified indigenous ancestors. Along with revealing the story of Bolivian music's route to Japan and interpreting the transnational staging of indigenous worlds, Bigenho examines these stories of closeness, thereby unsettling the East-West binary that often structures many discussions of cultural difference and exotic fantasy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395317
• Artikelnr.: 54789316

Autorenporträt

Michelle Bigenho is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hampshire College. She is the author of Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. Setting the Transnational Stage 1
2. "What's Up with You, Condor?": Performing Indigeneities 32
3. "The Chinese Food of Ethnic Music": Work and Value in Musical Otherness
60
4. A Hobby, a Sojourn, and a Job 91
5. Intimate Distance 122
6. Gringa in Japan 149
7. Conclusion: One's Own Music, Someone Else's Nation 167
Notes 179
Bibliography 201
Index 219