Intimate distance : Andean music in Japan / Michelle Bigenho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bigenho, Michelle, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bolivians--Japan--Music--History and criticism.

Bolivians.

Bolivians--Music--History and criticism.

Ethnomusicology--Bolivia--History and criticism.

Ethnomusicology.

Music.

Bolivia.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Summary:

What does it mean to play "someone else's music"? In Intimate Distance Michelle Bigenho delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and their Japanese audiences who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional musicians Bigenho conducted part of her ethnographic research while performing with Bolivian musicians as they toured Japan. Drawing on interviews with Bolivian musicians as well as Japanese fans and performers of these traditions, she explores how transcultural intimacy is produced through Andean music and its performance.

Bolivians and Japanese involved in Andean musical practices often express narratives of intimacy and racial belonging that reference shared but unspecified indigenous ancestors. Along with tracing Bolivian music's route to Japan and scrutinizing the transnational staging of indigenous worlds, Bigenho examines these stories of closeness, thereby unsettling the East-West binary that often structures discussions of cultural difference and exotic fantasy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Setting the transnational stage

What's up with you, Condor?: performing indigeneities

The Chinese food of ethnic music: work and value in musical otherness

Between a hobby, a sojourn, and a job

Intimate distance

Gringa in Japan

Conclusions: ones own music, someone elses nation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-218) and index.

ISBN:

9780822352204

0822352206

9780822352358

0822352354

OCLC:

748336553