Intimate Distance - Andean Music in Japan (Paperback)

What does it mean to play "someone else's music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional musicians. Michelle Bigenho conducted part of her ethnographic research while performing with Bolivian musicians as they toured Japan. Drawing on interviews with Bolivian musicians as well as Japanese fans and performers of these traditions, Bigenho explores how transcultural intimacy is produced at the site of Andean music and its performances.Bolivians and Japanese involved in these musical practices often express narratives of intimacy and racial belonging that reference shared but unspecified indigenous ancestors. Along with revealing the story of Bolivian music's route to Japan and interpreting the transnational staging of indigenous worlds, Bigenho examines these stories of closeness, thereby unsettling the East-West binary that often structures many discussions of cultural difference and exotic fantasy.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	May 2012
Authors:	Michelle Bigenho
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-5235-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
LSN:	0-8223-5235-4
Barcode:	9780822352358

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