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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838368803321

Autore

Wade Bonnie C.

Titolo

Composing Japanese Musical Modernity / / Bonnie C. Wade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2014]

©2013

ISBN

0-226-08549-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Classificazione

LQ 94000

Disciplina

780.952

Soggetti

Composers -- Japan

Music -- Japan -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Music -- Japan -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Music -- Japan -- Western influences

Composers - Western influences - 20th century - Japan

Music - Japan - History and criticism

Music - Japan

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Music History & Criticism, General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Composers in the Infrastructures of Japanese Modernity -- Part Two: Japanese Composers in Shared Cultural Spaces of Western Music -- Part Three: The Presence in Japan of European Spheres of Musical Participation -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra-someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper-and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such role existed-composition and performance were deeply intertwined. Only when Japan began to embrace Western culture in the late nineteenth century did the role of the composer emerge. In Composing Japanese



Musical Modernity, Bonnie Wade uses an investigation of this new musical role to offer new insights not just into Japanese music but Japanese modernity at large and global cosmopolitan culture. Wade examines the short history of the composer in Japanese society, looking at the creative and economic opportunities that have sprung up around them-or that they forged-during Japan's astonishingly fast modernization. She shows that modernist Japanese composers have not bought into the high modernist concept of the autonomous artist, instead remaining connected to the people. Articulating Japanese modernism in this way, Wade tells a larger story of international musical life, of the spaces in which tradition and modernity are able to meet and, ultimately, where modernity itself has been made.