Songs From The Edge Of Japan

Author : Matt Gillan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317052623

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Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa by Matt Gillan Pdf

Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from this island prefecture in the very south of Japan have found success as performers and recording artists, and have been featured in a number of hit films and television dramas. In particular, the Yaeyama region in the south of Okinawa has long been known as a region rich in performing arts, and Yaeyaman musicians such as BEGIN, Daiku Tetsuhiro, and Natsukawa Rimi have been at the forefront of the recent Okinawan music boom. This popularity of Okinawan music represents only the surface of a diverse and thriving musical culture within modern-day Yaeyama. Traditional music continues to be an important component of traditional ritual and social life in the islands, while Yaeyama's unique geographical and cultural position at the very edge of Japan have produced varied discourses surrounding issues such as tradition versus modernity, preservation, and cultural identity. Songs from the Edge of Japan explores some of the reasons for the high profile of Yaeyaman music in recent years, both inside and outside Yaeyama. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out since 2000, the book uses interviews, articles from the popular media, musical and lyrical analysis of field and commercial recordings, as well as the author's experiences as a performer of Yaeyaman and Okinawan music, to paint a picture of what it means to perform Yaeyaman music in the 21st century.

Author : Liza Crihfield
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462918102

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Ko-Uta: Little Songs of the Geisha World by Liza Crihfield Pdf

This book of Japanese poetry and lyrics explores a little-known style of Japanese song called Ko-Uta. A Ko-Uta is translated as "little song" in Japanese. Unfamiliar to most Westerners, ko-uta are particularly in tune with the tradition of Japan's Edo-era merchants. Some ko-uta are aesthetic, many are earthy. Ko-uta are sung to the accompaniment of the shamisen—a traditional, three-stringed Japanese lute. Ko-uta come to life when they are sung, and the best example of where they live is in the geisha world. To help give some idea of the geisha world, this Japanese music book has provided a complete score of one song. Readers with some experience with haiku and other forms of Japanese poetry will find that ko-uta share many things with those forms. Yet, ko-uta retain their own unique interest, making this book a fascinating addition to any collection of Japanese literature or art.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822353792

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Japanoise by David Novak Pdf

Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience. For its scattered listeners, Noise always seems to be new and to come from somewhere else: in North America, it was called "Japanoise." But does Noise really belong to Japan? Is it even music at all? And why has Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization and participatory media at the turn of the millennium? In Japanoise, David Novak draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States to trace the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise. He provides a rich ethnographic account of live performances, the circulation of recordings, and the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. He explores the technologies of Noise and the productive distortions of its networks. Capturing the textures of feedback—its sonic and cultural layers and vibrations—Novak describes musical circulation through sound and listening, recording and performance, international exchange, and the social interpretations of media.

Author : Soeda Azembo,Michael Lewis (Translator)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135784645

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A Life Adrift by Soeda Azembo,Michael Lewis (Translator) Pdf

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Azembo created enka songs sung by tenant farmers in rural hinterlands and factory hands in Tokyo and Osaka. Although his work is still largely unknown outside Japan, his poems and lyrics were so well known at his career’s peak that a single verse served as shorthand expressing popular attitudes about political corruption, sex scandals, spiralling prices, war, and love of motherland. As these categories attest, he embedded in his songs contemporary views on class conflict, gender relations, and racial attitudes toward international rivals. Ordinary people valued Azembo’s music because it was of them and for them. They also appreciated it for being distinctively modern and home-grown, qualities rare among the cultural innovations that flooded into Japan from the mid-nineteenth century. A Life Adrift stands out as the only memoir of its kind, one written first-hand by a leader in the world of enka singing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Kōbe-shi (Japan)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118907794

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The Japan Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Toru Mitsui
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501363870

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Popular Music in Japan by Toru Mitsui Pdf

Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka at the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit songs in the record industry in the years preceding the War, and ranging to the adoption of Western genres after the War--the rise of Japanese folk and rock, domestic exoticism as a new trend and J-Pop--Popular Music in Japan is a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of popular music in Japan. In eight revised and updated essays written in English by renowned Japanese scholar Toru Mitsui, this book tells the story of popular music in Japan since the late 19th century when Japan began positively embracing the West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Elocution
ISBN : UCAL:B3099344

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Werner's Voice Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hiromu Nagahara
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978416

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Tokyo Boogie-Woogie by Hiromu Nagahara Pdf

Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan’s transformation into a postwar middle-class society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Industries
ISBN : UCLA:L0075423574

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The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Kuhn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781338302899

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I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn Pdf

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Kasie West, I Love You So Mochi is a delightfully sweet and irrepressibly funny novel from accomplished author Sarah Kuhn. "As sweet and satisfying as actual mochi... a tender love story wrapped up in food, fashion, and family. I gobbled it up." -- Maurene Goo, author of The Way You Make Me FeelKimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement.She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring break, she seizes the opportunity to get away from the disaster of her life.When she arrives in Japan, she's met with a culture both familiar and completely foreign to her. She loses herself in the city's outdoor markets, art installations, and cherry blossom festival -- and meets Akira, a cute aspiring med student who moonlights as a costumed mochi mascot. And what begins as a trip to escape her problems quickly becomes a way for Kimi to learn more about the mother she left behind, and to figure out where her own heart lies.In I Love You So Mochi, author Sarah Kuhn has penned a delightfully sweet and irrepressibly funny novel that will make you squee at the cute, cringe at the awkward, and show that sometimes you have to lose yourself in something you love to find your Ultimate self.

Author : Edgar S. Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Elocution
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067333736

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Werner's Voice Magazine by Edgar S. Werner Pdf

Author : Tōru Mitsui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1501363891

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Popular Music in Japan by Tōru Mitsui Pdf

Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka at the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit songs in the record industry in the years preceding the War, and ranging to the adoption of Western genres after the War--the rise of Japanese folk and rock, domestic exoticism as a new trend and J-Pop--Popular Music in Japan is a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of popular music in Japan. In eight revised and updated essays written in English by renowned Japanese scholar Toru Mitsui, this book tells the story of popular music in Japan since the late 19th century when Japan began positively embracing the West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Industries
ISBN : UCSD:31822032766784

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Japan Spotlight by Anonim Pdf

Author : Willamarie Moore
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781462906246

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All About Japan by Willamarie Moore Pdf

**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!** A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place—and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a girl from the city, take us on a tour of their beloved land through their eyes. They introduce us to their homes, families, favorite places, school life, holidays and more! Celebrate the cherry blossom festival Learn traditional Japanese songs and poems Make easy recipes like mochi (New Year's sweet rice cakes) and okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza or pancakes) Create origami frogs, samurai helmets and more! Beyond the fun and fascinating facts, you'll also learn about the spirit that makes Japan one-of-a-kind. This is a multicultural children's book for families to treasure together.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Japan
ISBN : IOWA:31858045137563

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The Japan Times Weekly by Anonim Pdf