Matt Gillan

Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Songs from the Edge of Japan is an ethnographic account of the contemporary performance of the music of Yaeyama, in the south of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. The work includes interviews, analysis of popular and scholarly works in Japanese, musical and lyrical analyses, and accounts of fieldwork carried out in Yaeyama and Okinawa since 2000.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317052630
• Artikelnr.: 44873646

Autorenporträt

Dr Matthew Gillan, Department of Art and Music, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Island Treasures (Sïma nu Takara)
Chapter 2 Islands of Song and Dance: Yaeyama and its Music
Chapter 3 The Southern Islands '" Yaeyama and Okinawa in the Japanese Cultural Imagination
Chapter 4 Music for Gods, Ancestors and People '" Yaeyaman Music in a Ritual Context
Chapter 5 Nama ni nukushÅ?ri '" Lineages and Preservation Groups
Chapter 6 Izu su du nusï '" The Singer is Master: Regional versus Individual Styles in the Performance of TubarÄ?ma
Chapter 7 The Okinawa 'Boom' '" Local Music on the National Stage
Chapter 8 Afterword