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Traditional Folk Music in Contemporary Japan: Case Studies of Standardization and Diversification in Tsugaru Shamisen and Folk Song

Year: 2023

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: In this chapter, we take the opportunity to explore a more qualitative perspective on these questions to describe details of our own experiences performing the traditional folk music of modern Japan in the form of two autoethnographic case studies (one by Chiba, one by Savage). These case studies demonstrate how abstract phenomena we have published about like “melodic evolution” and “audiovisual interactions” are meaningful to us and other performers. Through this discussion of the evolution and diversification of Japanese folk music, we consider what folk music of the future should be like.

Source: BRILL eBooks

DOI: 10.1163/9789004687172_010

Authors: Gakuto Chiba, Patrick E. Savage

Language: English

Topic: Musicology and Musical Analysis

Subfield: Music

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Association for Psychological Science, Keio University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Award: Understanding global diversity in music perception and production

OpenAlex ID: W4388847433

FWCI: 121.7

Cites: 10

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10