Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture / Edition 1

by Bonnie C. Wade

Overview

Music in Japan is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study.
Music in Japan offers a vivid introduction to the music of contemporary Japan, a nation in which traditional, Western, and popular music thrive side by side. Drawing on more than forty years of experience, author Bonnie C. Wade focuses on three themes throughout the book and in the musical selections on the accompanying CD. She begins by exploring how music in Japan has been profoundly affected by interface with both the Western (Europe and the Americas) and Asian (continental and island) cultural spheres. Wade then shows how Japan's thriving popular music industry is also a modern form of a historically important facet of Japanese musical culture: the process of gradual popularization, in which a local or a group's music eventually becomes accessible to a broader range of people. She goes on to consider the intertextuality of Japanese music: how familiar themes, musical sounds, and structures have been maintained and transformed across the various traditions of Japanese performing arts over time.
Music in Japan is enhanced by eyewitness accounts of performances, interviews with key performers, and vivid illustrations. Packaged with an 80-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, it features guided listening and hands-on activities that encourage readers to engage actively and critically with the music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195144888
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/23/2004
Series:	Global Music Series
Edition description:	BK&CD-ROM
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.34(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

, Foreword, Preface, CD Track List1. International Interface: Looking WestwardSetting the Scene"The West" Goes to JapanMeiji-Period ModernizationWorld War I and Immediately Following2. International Interface: Looking EastwardTradition in a Time of ChangeInterface in the First MillenniumThe iGagaku/i Ensemble as We Hear It, Aerophones, Chordophones, Membranophones and an IdiophonePercussion Parts in iGagaku/i Music, Strokes and Stroke Sequences, Coordinated Percussion PatternsiGagaku/i through Time3. Focusing Inward and Across BoundariesBeyond Classical Music TrainingBeyond the PalaceBeyond the TempleFuzzing of Folk and PopularTsugaru syamiseniThe/i Syamisen, Drumming EnsemblesMatsuri bayashiWithin the World of iKoto/iiKeiko Nosaka and the Twenty-stringed/i KotoiTsukushi/i-gotoiYatsuhashi/i Ryu and "iRokudan/i", iIkuta Kengyo and Yamada Kengyd=oiMichio Migyai and/i Shin nihon ongakuiTraditional Music for/i Koto, Contemporary Composition for KotoFrom Theater to Film4. Intertextuality in the Theatrical ArtsThe iNo/i Drama and iAtaka/i, The Staging, The Plays and Musical Setting, The Acting Forces, Movement, The Musicians and InstrumentsThe iKabuki/i TheaterFrom No ito/i KabukiKanjincho, The Musicians, The MusicThe Film iMen Who Step on the Tiger's Tail/i5. Managing International InterfaceContinuing Interface, Looking to the East, Niche Musics from Around the World, Jazz and the Authenticity Issue, Hip-hop in JapanContinuing the Inward Look, National Cultural Policies, The Choral PhenomenonMusic and the Media, Film MusicEnka, J-pop, Theme Songs, The New York Nexus, Noise6. From Japan OutwardJapanese Diasporas, Karaoke, Jazz and "Japaneseness"Kurasiku ongakuSharing the concern about "Japaneseness"Expressing "Japaneseness" AestheticallyThe Seasons in Japanese Music, Keiko Abe and the MarimbaConclusion, Glossary, References, Resources, Index

Editorial Reviews

"With the current academic trend towards interdisciplinary research, teaching materials that lend themselves to this approach are needed. This book is an excellent example of one, which is equally suited for use with other materials in an interdisciplinary context, as well as for use on its own as a basis for a music-only class. . . . All in all, Wade has provided an exceptionally well-balanced book, which will prove useful both in the music classroom and beyond."—MJ Sunny Zank, Ohio Northern University, from a review in Japan Studies Association Journal, Vol. 6, 2008

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