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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163938003321

Titolo

The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music / / edited by Alison McQueen Tokita, David W. Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-17235-6

1-351-69761-7

1-351-69760-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SOAS Musicology Series

Ashgate research companion

Altri autori (Persone)

HughesDavid W <1945-> (David Weirick)

TokitaAlison <1947->

Disciplina

780.952

Soggetti

Music - Japan - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An Ashgate Book"--Cover.

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  (pages 383-420), audio/videography (p. 421-425) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Context and change in Japanese music / Alison Tokita and David Hughes -- 2. Court and religious music (1) : history of gagaku and shomyo / Steven G. Nelson -- 3. Court and religious music (2) : music of gagaku and shomyo / Steven G. Nelson -- 4. The musical narrative of the Tale of the Heike / Komoda Haruko -- 5. The Kyushu biwa traditions / Hugh de Ferranti -- 6. No and kyogen : music from the medieval theatre / Fujita Takanori -- 7. The shakuhachi and its music / Tsukitani Tsuneko -- 8. Sokyoku and jiuta: Edo-period chamber music / Philip Flavin -- 9. Gidayu-bushi: music of the bunraku puppet theatre / Yamada Chieko -- 10. Music in kabuki : more than meets the eye / Alison McQueen Tokita -- 11. Popular music before the Meiji period / Gerald Groemer -- 12. Folk music : from local to national to global / David W. Hughes -- 13. The music of Ryukyu / Robin Thompson -- 14. The music of the Ainu / Chiba Nobuhiko -- 15. Popular music in modern Japan / Christine Yano and Hosokawa Shuhei -- 16. Western-influenced 'classical' music in Japan / Judith Ann Herd.