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Author:   Alison Tokita ,  Hugh de Ferranti
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
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9781138249875

ISBN 10:   1138249874
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   09 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: Osakan Modernity: The Context; 1: Locating the Musics of Modern Osaka; 2: Aural Osaka: Listening to the Modern City; II: Creation of a Modern Musical Culture; 3: Marketing the Performing Arts in Osaka before the Twentieth Century; 4: The Growth of Western Art Music Appreciation in Osaka during the 1920s; 5: The Piano as a Symbol of Modernity in Prewar Kansai; III: Making and Remaking Music Traditions; 6: Naniwa-bushi and Social Debate in Two Postwar Periods: The Russo-Japanese War and the First World War; 7: Tateyama Noboru: Osaka, Modernity and Bourgeois Musical Realism for the Koto; 8: Modern Forms of Biwa Music in Osaka and the Kansai Region; 9: An Alternative Gagaku Tradition: The Gary?kai and Modern Osaka; IV: Hybridity in Kansai Musical Culture; 10: Takarazuka and Japanese Modernity; 11: Sh?chiku Girls' Opera and 1920s D?tonbori Jazz; V: Osaka and Beyond: Ethnic Minorities and Metropolitan East Asia; 12: Music-Making among Koreans in Colonial-Era Osaka; 13: Music and Performing Arts of Okinawans in Interwar Osaka; 14: The Creation of Exotic Space in the Miyako-odori: ‘Ry?ky?' and ‘Ch?sen' 1; 15: Osaka and Shanghai: Revisiting the Reception of Western Music in Metropolitan Japan

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Hugh de Ferranti’s published research is on historical and contemporary forms of biwa music, the practice of Japanese music beyond Japanese shores, and music-making among minorities in colonial era Japan. He is the author of Japanese Musical Instruments (OUP 2000) and The Last Biwa Singer (Cornell University East Asia Series 2009). He is Associate Professor in Music at the University of New England. Alison Tokita is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Japanese Traditional Music at the Kyoto City University of Arts, and adjunct Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at Monash University. She has published widely on Japanese narrative music, and is currently working on naniwa-bushi. In recent years she has researched the role of the piano in East Asian musical modernity. She is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (Ashgate 2008), Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia, and Outside Asia: Japanese and Australian Identities and Encounters in Flux.

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