The Last Biwa Singer : : A Blind Musician in History—Imagination and Performance /

The Last Biwa Singer : : A Blind Musician in History—Imagination and Performance / / Hugh Ferranti.

This work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901–1996), a man widely portrayed as the last such "living relic" of the medieval bards called biwa hoshi. The author draws up...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Ferranti, Hugh,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures, Tables and Examples
  • Notes on Conventions in the Text
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 IMAGES AND HISTORIES
  • 2 BIWA MUSIC OF THE HIGO REGION
  • 3 IMAGINING, ENCOUNTERING AND DOCUMENTING YAMASHIKA
  • 4 TALES IN PERFORMANCE
  • 5 THE LIFE OF THE ROAD: Yamashika Remembers
  • 6 BLIND BIWA SINGERS FORGOTTEN, REMEMBERED AND REHABILITATED
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • APPENDICES
  • APPENDIX 1
  • APPENDIX 2 First shōdan of Dōjōji (Yamashika Yoshiyuki; performance of October 14, 1989)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • AUDIOGRAPHY and VIDEOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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