Overview
- Looks at modern Japanese musical cultures, including music education, traditional music, western art music, and popular music
- Provides perspectives on the relationship between Japanese music culture and global flows
- Draws together new research from international scholars working in the fields of cultural studies, ethnomusicology, history, theatre studies and related areas
Part of the book series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity (PMCI)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transformation
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This volume explores the notion of “affective media” within and across different arts in Japan, with a primary focus on music, whether as standalone product or connected to other genres such as theatre and photography. The volume explores the Japanese reception of this “affective media”, its transformation and subsequent cultural flow. Moving from a discussion of early encounters with the West through Jesuits and others, the contributors primarily consider the role of music in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. With ten original chapters, the volume covers a wealth of themes, from education, koto music, guitar making, avant-garde recorder works, musicals and rock photography, to interviews with contemporary performers in jazz, modern rock and J-pop. Innovative and fascinating, the book provides rich new insights and material to all those interested in Japanese musical culture.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kei Hibino is Professor of English in the Faculty of Humanities, Seikei University, Japan. His published works include: The Postwar Development of Japanese Musicals (2017), American Labor: The Cultural Representations of Labor in the United States (2017), and Japonisme in Theatre (2016).
Barnaby Ralph is a Professor in the Department of British and American Literature, Seikei University, Japan. Recent publications include the book London And Literature, 1603-1901, for which he was principal editor, “Four Men in a Boat: Dryden, D'Avenant, Shadwell, Locke and The Tempest”.
Henry Johnson is Professor of Music at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His books include The Koto (Hotei, 2004), The Shamisen (2010) and The Shakuhachi (2014). He is Associate Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Music in the Making of Modern Japan
Book Subtitle: Essays on Reception, Transformation and Cultural Flows
Editors: Kei Hibino, Barnaby Ralph, Henry Johnson
Series Title: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73827-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73826-6Published: 31 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73829-7Published: 17 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73827-3Published: 29 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6613
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 215
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Music, Asian Culture, Popular Culture