The Ballad Drama Of Medieval Japan

Author : James T. Araki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520332962
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan written by James T. Araki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Kowaka, the 16th century ballad-drama, including stylistic analysis and explication of the texts, with examples, plus two complete librettos.

Author : James T. Araki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan written by James T. Araki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth A. Oyler
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864530
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions written by Elizabeth A. Oyler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions investigates some of the most historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan’s age of the warriors, is most famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike). Elizabeth Oyler’s ambitious work lays out the complex interconnections between the numerous variant texts of the Heike and the historical events they describe. But Oyler’s innovative methodology also brings other texts and genres—the Gikeiki, the Soga monogatari, the Azuma kagami, and pieces from the kōwakamai (ballad-dramas) repertoire—into her analysis. Rather than concentrating on individual texts, Oyler focuses on the inter-textual relationships within this larger body of narrative and drama and the collective role of these works in creating and disseminating stories about some of the Genpei War’s most contentious events. In so doing, she works toward a new understanding of the underlying cultural problems of which these tales are symptomatic and which they attempt to address.

Author : Alison McQueen Tokita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351925512
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative written by Alison McQueen Tokita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance. Performed narratives are examples of a shared cultural heritage, which in the past have given people a sense of belonging to a community. Narratives that were continually re-told and recycled in different versions and formats over a long period of time served to build people's sense of a common identity over space (the geographical extent of 'Japan') and time (the enduring power of many specific narratives such as The Tale of the Heike). Much scholarly attention has focused on Japanese pre-modern literature and drama, but the tradition of oral narrative has barely been touched. Tokita argues that it is possible to identify a continuous tradition of performed narrative in Japan from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The elements of variation and change relate to the move away from oral narrative to text-based performance, and from a simple narrative situation with one performer to complex theatrical narratives with dancers, singers and other musicians. The resulting complexity led to the pre-eminence of the musical aspects in some cases, and of dramatic or dance aspects in others. Tokita includes substantial musical analysis and exploration of theoretical issues, as well as documentation of important performance traditions, all of which are extant.

Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644849
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan written by Helen Hardacre and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays on Meiji Japan, written by scholars from nine nations, reflect a determination to destabilize existing paradigms in the social sciences and humanities, in favor of a multiplicity of perspectives that privilege subjectivity and the inclusion of non-elite groups.

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Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taiheiki written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1976 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Brazell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231108737
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Japanese Theater written by Karen Brazell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume.

Author : Jacob Raz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004658254
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audience and Actors written by Jacob Raz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Riley Kernodle
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610754217
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The theatre in history written by George Riley Kernodle and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ortolani
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484140
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book The Japanese Theatre written by Ortolani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date cultural history of the Japanese theatre in all its forms including primitive rituals, court and popular dance-drama, puppet shows and westernized plays, is narrated here for the first time in English by a western authority in the field. The book underlines Zeami and Zenchiku's secret tradition of the nō, explaining Zen-inspired spiritual teachings for the actor's training on the way to enlightened performance. It also gives relevance to the transformation of an anti-establishment entertainment by prostitutes into spectacular kabuki stagecraft, and to the modernization process which created shingeki modern drama, and moved it into the context of world theatre. The final chapter summarizes the history of western discovery of the Japanese stage. The illustrations, the indexes, the glossary and the extensive bibliography — including all major literature in western languages until 1989 — also contribute to make this volume a must for all students of the Japanese theatre, and for anyone interested in a better understanding of Japanese culture as mirrored in its theatrical component.