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An Introduction to Japanese Folk Performing Arts (Hardcover, New Ed)
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An Introduction to Japanese Folk Performing Arts (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments
that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual
dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities;
group dances to drive away disease-bearing spirits; or theatrical
mime to portray the tenets of Buddhist teachings. These ritual
entertainments can have histories of a thousand years or more and,
with such histories, some have served as the inspiration for the
urban entertainments of no, kabuki and bunraku puppetry. The flow
of that inspiration, however, has not always been one way. Elements
taken from these urban forms could also be used to enhance the
appeal of ritual dance and drama. And, in time, these urban
entertainments too came to be performed in rural or regional
settings and today are similarly considered folk performing arts.
Professor Terence Lancashire provides a valuable introductory guide
to the major performance types as understood by Japanese scholars.
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