Goze : women, musical performance, and visual disability in traditional Japan /

In a tradition extending from the medieval era to the early twentieth century, visually disabled Japanese women known as goze toured the countryside as professional singers. An integral part of rural musical culture, the goze sang unique narratives of their own making and a significant repertory of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Groemer, Gerald, 1957- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Approaching the Goze
  • The production of visual disability
  • The development of Echigo Goze associations
  • Learning the Goze art and way of life
  • Touring and performing in Echigo : Goze and their audiences
  • Endings : coerced liberation
  • After the end : Goze songs in the postwar era.