The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alison McQueen Tokita and David W. Hughes.
• Other Names: Tokita, Alison, 1947-; Dr, Hughes, David W
• Contents: Context and change in Japanese music / Alison Tokita and David Hughes -- Court and Buddhist music (1) : history of gagaku and shōmyō / Steven G. Nelson -- Court and Buddhist music (2) : music of gagaku and shōmyō / Steven G. Nelson -- The musical narrative of the Tale of the Heike / Komoda Haruko -- The Kyushu biwa traditions / Hugh de Ferranti -- Nō and kyōgen : music from the medieval theatre / Fujita Takanori -- The shakuhachi and its music / Tsukitani Tsuneko -- Sōkyoku and jiuta : Edo-period chamber music / Philip Flavin -- Gidayū-bushi : music of the bunraku puppet theatre / Yamada Chieko -- Music in kabuki : more than meets the eye / Alison McQueen Tokita -- Popular music before the Meiji period / Gerald Groemer -- Folk music : from local to national to global / David W. Hughes -- The music of Ryukyu / Robin Thompson -- The music of the Ainu / Chiba Nobuhiko -- Popular music in modern Japan / Christine Yano and Hosokawa Shuhei -- Western-influenced "classical" music in Japan / Judith Ann Herd.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (472 pages)
• Subjects: 780.952; Music -- Japan -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351697606; 1351697609
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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