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The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is
in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively
introduced Western music into their modern education system in the
Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and
instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten
upwards. As a result, most Japanese now have a far greater
familiarity with Western (or westernized) music than with
traditional Japanese music. Traditional or classical Japanese music
has become somewhat ghettoized, often known and practised only by
small groups of people in social structures which have survived
since the pre-modern era. Such marginalization of Japanese music is
one of the less recognized costs of Japan's modernization. On the
other hand, music in its westernized and modernized forms has an
extremely important place in Japanese culture and society,
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, being so widely known and
performed that it is arguably part of contemporary Japanese popular
and mass culture. Japan has become a world leader in the mass
production of Western musical instruments and in innovative
methodologies of music education (Yamaha and Suzuki). More
recently, the Japanese craze of karaoke as a musical entertainment
and as musical hardware has made an impact on the leisure and
popular culture of many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
This is the first book to cover in detail all genres including
court music, Buddhist chant, theatre music, chamber ensemble music
and folk music, as well as contemporary music and the connections
between music and society in various periods. The book is a
collaborative effort, involving both Japanese and English speaking
authors, and was conceived by the editors to form a balanced
approach that comprehensively treats the full range of Japanese
musical culture.
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