Music in Japan. Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

CONTENIDO:

Foreword
Preface
CD Track List

1. International Interface: Looking Westward
Setting the Scene
"The West" Goes to Japan
Meiji-Period Modernization
World War I and Immediately Following

2. International Interface: Looking Eastward
Tradition in a Time of Change
Interface in the First Millennium
The Gagaku Ensemble as We Hear It
- Aerophones
- Chordophones
- Membranophones and an Idiophone
Percussion Parts in Gagaku Music
- Strokes and Stroke Sequences
- Coordinated Percussion Patterns
Gagaku through Time

3. Focusing Inward and Across Boundaries
Beyond Classical Music Training
Beyond the Palace
Beyond the Temple
Fuzzing of Folk and Popular
Tsugaru syamisen
The Syamisen
- Drumming Ensembles
Matsuri bayashi
Within the World of Koto
Keiko Nosaka and the Twenty-stringed Koto
Tsukushi -goto
Yatsuhashi Ryu and "Rokudan "
- Ikuta Kengyo and Yamada Kengy^d=o
Michio Migyai and Shin nihon ongaku
Traditional Music for Koto
- Contemporary Composition for Koto
From Theater to Film

4. Intertextuality in the Theatrical Arts
The No Drama and Ataka
- The Staging
- The Plays and Musical Setting
- The Acting Forces
- Movement
- The Musicians and Instruments
The Kabuki Theater
From No to Kabuki
Kanjincho
- The Musicians
- The Music
The Film Men Who Step on the Tiger's Tail

5. Managing International Interface
Continuing Interface
- Looking to the East
- Niche Musics from Around the World
- Jazz and the Authenticity Issue
- Hip-hop in Japan

Continuing the Inward Look
- National Cultural Policies
- The Choral Phenomenon
Music and the Media
- Film Music
Enka
- J-pop
- Theme Songs
- The New York Nexus
- Noise

6. From Japan Outward
Japanese Diasporas
- Karaoke
- Jazz and "Japaneseness"
Kurasiku ongaku
Sharing the concern about "Japaneseness"
Expressing "Japaneseness" Aesthetically
The Seasons in Japanese Music
- Keiko Abe and the Marimba

Conclusion
Glossary
References
Resources
Index