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Shaped by Japanese music : Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keister, Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Current research in ethnomusicology ; v. 10.
Subjects:
Kikuoka, Hiroaki, > 1928-1999.
Shamisen music > History and criticism.
Nagauta > History and criticism.
Music > Japan > Tokyo > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • The human life in the music
  • A career in nagauta : Kikuoka Hiroaki
  • Learning nagauta : an ethnographic account of teacher-student relationships
  • Nagauta as social institution : the shaping forces of form
  • Nagauta as cultural document : the shaping of sukeroku
  • The shape of nagauta in the twentieth century : two compositions by Kikuoka
  • Shaped by Japanese music.