Composing Japanese Musical Modernity 1st Edition by Bonnie Wade ISBN 978-0226085357 022608535X
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ISBN 10: 022608535X
ISBN 13: 978-0226085357
Author: Bonnie Wade
When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra—someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper—and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan’s musical history, however, no such role existed—composition and performance were deeply intertwined. Only when Japan began to embrace Western culture in the late nineteenth century did the role of the composer emerge. In Composing Japanese Musical Modernity, Bonnie Wade uses an investigation of this new musical role to offer new insights not just into Japanese music but Japanese modernity at large and global cosmopolitan culture.
Wade examines the short history of the composer in Japanese society, looking at the creative and economic opportunities that have sprung up around them—or that they forged—during Japan’s astonishingly fast modernization. She shows that modernist Japanese composers have not bought into the high modernist concept of the autonomous artist, instead remaining connected to the people. Articulating Japanese modernism in this way, Wade tells a larger story of international musical life, of the spaces in which tradition and modernity are able to meet and, ultimately, where modernity itself has been made.
Table of contents:
Part I: Composers in the Infrastructures of Japanese Modernity
The Primary Connection: Music and Education
Connectivities of Government, Education, Industry, and Commerce
Part II: Japanese Composers in Shared Cultural Spaces of Western Music
International Participation in the Shared Space of Concert Music in the Global Cosmopolitan Culture
Hogaku in the Environment of Shared Cultural Space in Japanese Musical Modernity
Part III: The Presence in Japan of European Spheres of Musical Participation
Composing for European Instrumental Ensembles
Composing for Chorus
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