This study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is an active socio- cultural system that has

This study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is an active socio- cultural system that has

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

What makes Japanese music sound Japanese? Each genre of Japan's pre-Western music (hogaku) morphed from the preceding one with singing at its foundation. In anc

From the sugar rush of Tokyo's idol subculture to the discordant polyrhythms of its experimental punk and indie scenes, this book by Japan Times music columnist