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The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music
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Pages: 480
Authors: Alison Tokita
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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This is the first book to cover in detail all genres of Japanese music including court music, Buddhist chant, theatre music, chamber ensemble music and folk mus
The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: David W. Hughes
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into thei
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Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Matt Gillan
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from this island prefecture in the very so
Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: Alison McQueen Tokita
Categories: Music
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Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centur