| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
New World diasporas |
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New World diasporas series.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations ix; List of Tables xii; List of Audio Examples xiii; Foreword xvii; Acknowledgments xxi; Orthography xxvii; 1. Introduction: Music Making, Memory, and Dimensions of Ethnicity 1; 2. Emigration and Music from the Japanese Homelands 20; 3. Peru 38; 4. Brazil 85; 5. Argentina 157; 6. Paraguay 198; 7. Bolivia 210; 8. Song Contests: Musical Intersections and the Shaping of JapaneseIdentity 245; 9. Karaoke: Mediated Music and Singing, Social Functions, and Identity 254; 10. Social Variables of Identity through Music: Qualitative and QuantitativeApproaches 267 |
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11. Conclusion: Music Making and Cultural Survival 295Notes 303; Appendixes 309; Glossary 315; Bibliography 325; Index 335 |
| Summary |
Music helps form and nurture ethnic identity for large populations of people of Japanese descent in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Paraguay. In a story never before told, Dale Olsen offers a musical history and ethnography of this vibrant Asian diaspora, the largest population of overseas Japanese in the world and one of the most successful subcultures in South America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-334) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Japanese -- South America -- Music -- History and criticism
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Music -- South America -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology.
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Music
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Musikleben
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South America
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Südamerika
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Japaner.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004057136 |
| ISBN |
9780813035857 |
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0813035856 |
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