1st Edition
Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900 The Beggar's Gift
By Gerald Groemer
Copyright 2016
436 Pages
106 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
434 Pages
106 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
434 Pages
106 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years this city was the centre of such arts, both sacred and secular. This study outlines the nature of the... Read more
Introduction 1.Conditions of Possibility: Economic, Political, and Ideological 2. Outcast(e) Street Performers 3. Gods and Spirits in the Streets 4. GÅmune and their Arts 5. Yashi: Performance, Advertisement, Production 6. The Aftermath of Meiji: Conditions of Impossibility
Biography
Gerald Groemer is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Western Musicology at Univeristy of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan.
"Street Performers offers an abundance of useful information at a close reading..."
Laura Nenzi, University of Tennessee, Monumenta Nipponica
