Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools
This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest organized by the All-Japan Band Association. Identified here for the first time as the world’s largest musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and well over 500,000 competitors. The book’s insi...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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Σειρά: | Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education,
9 |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword
- Part I: A social history of wind bands in Japanese schools. Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Where are these bands from?
- Part II: An ethnography of wind bands in Japanese schools. Chapter 3: An invitation to the Tokyo middle school
- Chapter 4: The band rehearsal ritual and its participants
- Chapter 5: Instruction in the Japanese school band
- Chapter 6: Scenes from the 50th AJBA national band competition
- Chapter 7: Winning in the band: Views from beneath and within
- Chapter 8: Winning in the band: Views from above and beyond
- Chapter 9: Japanese composers and wind band repertoire
- Chapter 10: Leadership and duty in the ensemble
- Chapter 11: Cooperative learning and mentorship in band
- Chapter 12: Organizational training of the Japanese band director
- Chapter 13: Corporate giants
- Chapter 14: Metaphors of a Japanese band community
- Chapter 15: Musical identity in the band
- Chapter 16: National identity in the Japanese school band
- Chapter 17: Ensemble ethos
- Chapter 18: Conclusions
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.