Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan: Sources, Sentiment and Society [With CD]

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-905246-65-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, CD (AUDIO), Format (B × H): 181 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1061 g

The study moves from tradition to modernity, explores a range of topics such as: song life in the traditional village; rural–urban tensions; local min’yo ‘preservation societies’; the effects of national and local min’yo contests; the ‘new folk song’ phenomenon; min’yo and tourism; folk song bars; recruitment of professionals; min’yo’s interaction with enka popular songs and with Western-derived foku songu; the impact of mass mediation; and min’yo’s role in maintaining or creating local identity. The book contains a plate section, musical examples, and a compact disc.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, David W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; 1 Folk song in Japan: the background; 2 Song and music in the traditional village; 3 Folk song in transition; 4 The modern urban folk song world; 5 The modern countryside and the performing arts; 6 At the edges of the 'folk song world'; 7 Japanese folk song: retrospect, circumspect, prospect; Appendix 1: Texts of shin-min'yo and related popular songs; Appendix 2: Addresses related to min'yo; Appendix 3: A marketing guide for min'yo recordings; Bibliography; Audio-Videography; Glossary; Index of musical works; Notes to accompanying CD; General index

Über Autor(innen)

David Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London, where he served two periods as Head of the Department of Music. He has spent over nine years in Japan, much of it involved in the folk song world as researcher, but often also as performer and judge at song contests. His other main research interests and publications involve music transmission, oral mnemonics cross-culturally, Central Java (gamelan), traditional street musicians and grammars of music. Most recently, he has co-edited with Alison Tokita, and contributed to, The Ashgate Companion to Japanese Music (2007).