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.,. an important contribution to scholarship....bound to engage the curiosity of any student of Asian performance, folk traditions, or performance studies. -Theatre Journal

This book covers new ground in its approach and focus, and is accesing blend of a diverse number of performing traditions from both the court and lower classes of medieval Japan and the way it draws on religious practices including Buddhist chant and folk Shinto music...both the general and specialist reader may gain from the extensive experience of this author ensuring that we may have insights into these traditions that are inherited across so many centuries of Japanese history. -Ethnomusicology ... an important contribution to scholarship....bound to engage the curiosity of any student of Asian performance, folk traditions, or performance studies. -Theatre Journal ?...an important contribution to scholarship....bound to engage the curiosity of any student of Asian performance, folk traditions, or performance studies.?-Theatre Journal ?This book covers new ground in its approach and focus, and is accesing blend of a diverse number of performing traditions from both the court and lower classes of medieval Japan and the way it draws on religious practices including Buddhist chant and folk Shinto music...both the general and specialist reader may gain from the extensive experience of this author ensuring that we may have insights into these traditions that are inherited across so many centuries of Japanese history.?-Ethnomusicology .,. an important contribution to scholarship....bound to engage the curiosity of any student of Asian performance, folk traditions, or performance studies. -Theatre Journal

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SUSAN M. ASAI is a music professor at Northeastern University in Boston. She received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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