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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tokita, Alison, 1947-

Hughes, David W. (David Weirick), 1945-

Series:

SOAS musicology series

Ashgate research companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Japan--History and criticism.

Music.

Ethnic music recordings--Japan.

Local Subjects:

Ethnic music recordings--Japan.

Physical Description:

xxv, 446 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]

Contents:

Context and change in Japanese music / Alison McQueen Tokita and David W. Hughes

Court and religious music (1) : history of gagaku and shōmyō / Steven G. Nelson

Court and religious music (2) : music of gagaku and shōmyō / Steven G. Nelson

The musical narrative of the Tale of the Heike / Komoda Haruko

The Kyushu biwa traditions / Hugh de Ferranti

Nō and kyōgen : music from the medieval theatre / Fujita Takanori

The shakuhachi and its music / Tsukitani Tsuneko

Sōkyoku and jiuta : Edo-period chamber music / Philip Flavin

Gidayū-bushi : music of the bunraku puppet theatre / Yamada Chieko

Music in kabuki : more than meets the eye / Alison McQueen Tokita

Popular music before the Meiji period / Gerald Groemer

Folk music : from local to national to global / David W. Hughes

The music of Ryukyu / Robin Thompson

The music of the Ainu / Chiba Nobuhiko

Popular music in modern Japan / Christine Yano and Hosokawa Shuhei

Western-influenced 'classical' music in Japan / Judith Ann Herd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-420), audio/videography, and index.

Contents of accompanying compact disc with brief informative notes on many tracks on p. [427]-432. "Because of space limitations, virtually all tracks...are excerpts" p. [427]

ISBN:

9780754656999

0754656993

OCLC:

85822685