Related Books

Language: en
Pages: 151
Authors: KellyM. Foreman
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Japanese geisha is an international icon, known almost universally as a symbol of traditional Japan. Numerous books exist on the topic, yet this is the firs
The Gei of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning
Language: en
Pages: 158
Authors: KellyM. Foreman
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Japanese geisha is an international icon, known almost universally as a symbol of traditional Japan. Numerous books exist on the topic, yet this is the firs
Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Jennifer Milioto Matsue
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-16 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan explores a diversity of musics performed in Japan today, ranging from folk song to classical music, the songs of geisha to th
The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Dr Beth Szczepanski
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monaster
The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Rachel A. Harris
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Throughout the course of the twentieth century, as newly formed nations sought ways to develop and formalize their national identity and acquire a range of iden