Overview
Over the last fifty years, the music of Jōji Yuasa has attained the zenith of international musical standards. A study of this great Japanese composer is long overdue. Persuasive and captivating, less ""easy"" than that of his lifetime friend Tōru Takemitsu, Yuasa's music has also been a model for many young composers, both from Japan and further afield, thanks to the long period he spent teaching composition at the University of California, San Diego (1981–1994).This book serves to illuminate aspects of Yuasa's work, intricately linked to deep, native roots which tend to be more opaque for western (and other) ears. It focusses on various aspects of Yuasa's music as well as on the social, anthropological, aesthetic and critical contexts that have informed his compositional practice in the context of the postwar Japanese musical world. In a continual interior dialogue which includes Jean-Paul Sartre and Daisetzu T. Suzuki, Matsuo Bashō and William Faulkner, Henry Miller and Motokiyo Zeami, Yuasa's avant-garde aesthetic project, western in conception, encounters the productive thought of an unambiguously Japanese aesthetic, i.e. that of Zen.An analysis of Yuasa's main works will illustrate and complete the picture of Yuasa's world. Yuasa's works are placed at the centre of the most original of creative forces in the contemporary music world – a place where, for Yuasa, ""in the same idea of creativity, there has to be an avant-garde component"".
Full Product Details
Author: Luciana Galliano ,
Peter Burt
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.20cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781443837637
ISBN 10: 1443837636
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 25 April 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Luciana Galliano is a foremost musicologist in the study of modern Japanese music. She teaches graduate courses in ""Composition in Non-European Countries"" at University Ca' Foscari Venezia, and has published many books and essays including Yōgaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century (Scarecrow, 2002), easily the most comprehensive work on its subject in any European language.Peter Burt is author of the successful book The Music of Tōru Takemitsu (CUP, 2001); he is the author of several publications on Takemitsu and other musical topics, and currently teaches for the Open University in Vienna. He is Vice-Chairman of the Takemitsu Society in the UK and editor of the Takemitsu Society Newsletter.
