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Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900 - The Beggar's Gift (Hardcover)
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Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900 - The Beggar's Gift (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously
documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of
music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on
thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in
Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years this city was the centre of
such arts, both sacred and secular. This study outlines the nature
of the performances, explores the social relations which lay behind
them, and reveals vast complexity: an obligation of gift-giving on
the part of observers; performers who were often economic migrants
fallen on hard times; relations of performance to social class; a
class system much more finely gradated than the official four caste
system; and institutions of professional organization and
registration, enforced by government, with penalties for
unregistered performers. The book discusses how performing,
witnessing, and rewarding performance were closely bound up with
economy, society and government, how the interaction between
various groups related to socio-economic advancement, how the
system of street performance reinforced social control, and how the
balance between different groups shifted over time.
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