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Book Synopsis Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa by : Matt Gillan
Download or read book Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa written by Matt Gillan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from this island prefecture in the very south of Japan have found success as performers and recording artists, and have been featured in a number of hit films and television dramas. In particular, the Yaeyama region in the south of Okinawa has long been known as a region rich in performing arts, and Yaeyaman musicians such as BEGIN, Daiku Tetsuhiro, and Natsukawa Rimi have been at the forefront of the recent Okinawan music boom. This popularity of Okinawan music represents only the surface of a diverse and thriving musical culture within modern-day Yaeyama. Traditional music continues to be an important component of traditional ritual and social life in the islands, while Yaeyama's unique geographical and cultural position at the very edge of Japan have produced varied discourses surrounding issues such as tradition versus modernity, preservation, and cultural identity. Songs from the Edge of Japan explores some of the reasons for the high profile of Yaeyaman music in recent years, both inside and outside Yaeyama. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out since 2000, the book uses interviews, articles from the popular media, musical and lyrical analysis of field and commercial recordings, as well as the author's experiences as a performer of Yaeyaman and Okinawan music, to paint a picture of what it means to perform Yaeyaman music in the 21st century.
Download or read book A Life Adrift written by Soeda Azembo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Azembo created enka songs sung by tenant farmers in rural hinterlands and factory hands in Tokyo and Osaka. Although his work is still largely unknown outside Japan, his poems and lyrics were so well known at his career’s peak that a single verse served as shorthand expressing popular attitudes about political corruption, sex scandals, spiralling prices, war, and love of motherland. As these categories attest, he embedded in his songs contemporary views on class conflict, gender relations, and racial attitudes toward international rivals. Ordinary people valued Azembo’s music because it was of them and for them. They also appreciated it for being distinctively modern and home-grown, qualities rare among the cultural innovations that flooded into Japan from the mid-nineteenth century. A Life Adrift stands out as the only memoir of its kind, one written first-hand by a leader in the world of enka singing.
Book Synopsis Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan by : David W. Hughes
Download or read book Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan written by David W. Hughes and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese say that ‘folk song is the heart’s home town’. Traditional folk songs (min’yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. Today, however, they are also taught as a quasi-art music, arranged for stage and television, quoted in Westernized popular songs and so forth.
Book Synopsis Highways and Homes of Japan by : Lady Kate Lawson
Download or read book Highways and Homes of Japan written by Lady Kate Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Folk songs of Japan by : Donald Paul Berger
Download or read book Folk songs of Japan written by Donald Paul Berger and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tears of Longing by : Christine Yano
Download or read book Tears of Longing written by Christine Yano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka’s primary audience, this music—of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers—evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of “Japaneseness.” Overlooked in this emotional invocation of the past, however, are the powerful commercial forces that, since the 1970s, have shaped the consumption of enka and its version of national identity. Informed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author’s extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes “Japan.”
Book Synopsis Five Little Japanese Songs by : Amy Woodforde-Finden
Download or read book Five Little Japanese Songs written by Amy Woodforde-Finden and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Japan Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Songs of Japan by : Granville Bantock
Download or read book Songs of Japan written by Granville Bantock and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dorama Encyclopedia by : Jonathan Clements
Download or read book The Dorama Encyclopedia written by Jonathan Clements and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining reference to popular Japanese TV shows, from the publisher of The Anime Encyclopedia.
Download or read book Automatic Eve written by Rokuro Inui and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mighty shogunate ruling the land from Tempu Castle. An imperial line with strict female succession. Caught between these two immense powers, the sprawling city of Tempu is home to many wonders—not least a superhuman technological achievement in the form of a beautiful automaton known as Eve. When a secret that threatens to shake the imperial line intersects with the mystery of Eve’s creation, events are set in motion that soon race toward a shocking conclusion. A new, astonishingly inventive science fantasy masterpiece of historic proportions. -- VIZ Media
Book Synopsis The Island Edge of America by : Tom Coffman
Download or read book The Island Edge of America written by Tom Coffman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawai'i. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, post-war labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawai'i's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawai'i carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawai'i of complex and conflicting identities - independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation - a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place. With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawai'i's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.
Download or read book Werner's Voice Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Rap Music written by Ian Condry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All About Japan by : Willamarie Moore
Download or read book All About Japan written by Willamarie Moore and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!** A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place—and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a girl from the city, take us on a tour of their beloved land through their eyes. They introduce us to their homes, families, favorite places, school life, holidays and more! Celebrate the cherry blossom festival Learn traditional Japanese songs and poems Make easy recipes like mochi (New Year's sweet rice cakes) and okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza or pancakes) Create origami frogs, samurai helmets and more! Beyond the fun and fascinating facts, you'll also learn about the spirit that makes Japan one-of-a-kind. This is a multicultural children's book for families to treasure together.
Download or read book Music in Japan written by Bonnie C. Wade and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Traditional Music of Japan by : Shigeo Kishibe
Download or read book The Traditional Music of Japan written by Shigeo Kishibe and published by Tokyo : Japan Foundation. This book was released on 1982 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
