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Japan Performing Arts Bibliography

 

Ackermann, Peter
1990 Kumiuta: Traditional Songs for Certificates: a Study
of Their Texts and Implications. Swiss Asian Studies; Monographs, vol. 10. Bern: P. Lang.
Adachi, Barbara
1985 Backstage at Bunraku. New York: Weatherhill.
Adriaansz, Willem
1967 "Research into the Chronology of Danmono," in Ethnomusicology 11/1:25-53.
1973 The Kumiuta and Danmono Traditions of Japanese Koto Music. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
1978 "Music and Traditions of the Edo Period," in The World of Music 20/2:69-75.
Albery, Nobuko
1985 The House of Kanze. New York: Simon and Schuster.
[a novel about Zeami]
Araki, James T.
1978 The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan. Rutland, VT/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co.
Arnott, Peter D.
1969 The Theatres of Japan. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Asai, Susan
1985 "Horaku: a Buddhist tradition of performing arts and the development of taiko drumming in the United States," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 6:163-172.
1988 Music and Drama in Nomai of Northern Japan. Ph.D.
dissertation, Los Angeles: University of California.
Averbuch, Irit
1995 The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual
Dance of Yamabushi Kagura. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia
Series.
Bach, Faith
1989 "New Directions in Kabuki," in Asian Theatre Journal 6/1:
77-89.
1995 "Breaking the Kabuki Actors' Barriers, 1868-1900," in
Asian Theatre Journal 12/2:264-279.
Berger, Donald P.
1969 "The Shakuhachi and Kinko Ryu Notation," in Asian
Music 1/2:32-69.
Berlin, Zeke
1991 "The Takarazuka Touch," in the Asian Theater Journal 8/1:35-47.
Bethe, Monica, and Karen Brazell
1990 "The Practice of Noh Theatre," in By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual, ed. by Richard Schechner and Willa Appel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Blasdel, Christopher
1984 "The Shakuhachi: Aesthetics of a Single Tone," in Japan
Quarterly 31/2:214-217.
Bowers, Faubion
1952 Japanese Theatre. New York: Hermitage House.
Brandon, James R.
1978 "Form in Kabuki Acting," in Studies in Kabuki:
Its Acting, Music, and Historical Context, James R.
Brandon, ed. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.
1982 Chushingura: Studies in Kabuki and the Puppet Theater.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Brandon, James R. and Tamako Niwa, ed. and trans.
1966 Kabuki: Five Classic Plays. Cambridge: Harvard Univ.
Brau, Lorie
1990 "The Women's Theatre of Takarazuka," in The Drama Review 34/4:79-95.
Bunch, Ralph and Matsuko Motoyame
1987 "Women, Tradition and Politics in Japanese Classical
Theatre," in Journal of Asian and African Studies
22/1-2:80-86.
Burnett, Henry
1979 "An Introduction to the History and Aesthetics of Japanese Jiuta-Tegotomono," in Asian Music 11/2:11-40.
1989 "Minezaki Koto's Zangetsu: an analysis of a Traditional
Japanese Chamber Music Composition," Perspectives of
New Music 27/2:78-117.
Coaldrake, A. Kimi
1987 "Female Tayu in the Gidayu Narrative Tradition of Japan," in Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Ellen Koskoff, ed. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press.
pp. 151-162.
1990 "Building a New Musical Tradition: the Sogakudo and the Introduction of Western Music inJapan," in Musicology Australia 13:35-41.
Combs, Jo Anne
1985 "Japanese-American Music and Dance in Los Angeles, 1930-1942," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 6:121-150.
Condit, Jonathan
1976 "Differing Transcriptions from the Twelfth Century Japanese Koto Manuscript Jinchi Yoroku," in Ethnomusicology 20/1:87-96.
1977 "Uncovering Earlier Melodic Forms from Modern Performance: the kasa repertoire," in Asian Music 9/2:3- 20.
Conrad, Bridget
1987 "Shin Aoyagi: A Jiuta Setting of a Noh Text," in Hogaku
3:69-106.
de Ferranti, Hugh
1991 "Composition and Improvisation in Satsuma Biwa," in
Musica Asiatica 6, ed. by Allan Marett. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press: 102-127.
1994 "Relations Between Music and Text in Higo Biwa: The Nagashi Pattern as a Text-Music System," in Asian Music 26/1:149-174.
de Launey, Guy
1995 "Not-so-big in Japan: Western Pop Music in the
Japanese Market," in Popular Music 14/2:203-226.

Dunn, C.J.
1966 The Early Japanese Puppet Drama. London: Luzac.
Eishi, Kikkawa
1984 "Problems of Import and Export of Music in Japan," in
East 20/2:65-69.
Emmert, Richard
1983 "The Maigoto of No -- a musical analysis of the chu-no- mai," in The Yearbook for Traditional Music 15:5-13.
Eppstein, Ury
1985 "Musical Instruction in Meiji Education: a study of
adaptation and assimilation," in Monumenta Nipponica
40/1:1-37.
Ernst, Earle
1956 The Kabuki Theatre. London: Secker and Warburg.
1959 Three Japanese Plays. New York: Oxford University.
Falconer, Elizabeth
1990 "A New Decade for Hogaku," Japan Quarterly 37/4:468- 478.
Fenollosa, Ernest, and Pound, Ezra
1959 The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan. New York.
Flora, Reis
1974 "The Acoustic Behavior of the Piri and the Hichiriki," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology II/1:140-157.
Fritsch, Ingrid
1981 "Report on the Third German-Japanese Symposium on Traditional Japanese Music in Cologne (1981)," in Asian Music 13/1:144-146.
1983 "A Comparison of Tozanryu and Kinkoryu Shakuhachi Arrangements for Sankyoku Gasso Made From Identical Originals," in The Yearbook for Traditional Music 15:14- 30.
1992 "The Social Organization of Goze in Japan: Blind Female Musicians on the Road," in Chime 5:58-64.

Fujie, Linda
1983 "Effects of Urbanization on Matsuri-Bayashi in Tokyo," in The Yearbook for Traditional Music 15:38-44.
Garfias, Robert
1968 "The Sacred Mi-Kagura of the Japanese Imperial Court," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology I/2:149-178.
1993 "The Okinawan Kunkunshi Notation System and Its Role
in the Dissemination of the Shuri Court Music Tradition,"
in Asian Music 25/1-2:115-144.
Gerstle, C. Andrew
1986 Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Gerstle, C. Andrew, Kiyoshi Inobe and William P. Malm
1990 Theater as Music: the Bunraku Puppet Play 'Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: an exemplary tale of womanly virtue'. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No.4. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan.
Goff, Janet
1991 Noh Drama and The Tale of Genji: The Art of Allusion
in Fifteen Classical Plays. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press.
Goodman, David G.
1988 Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s: the Return
of the Gods. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Groemer, Gerald
1994a "Singing the News: Yomiuri in Japan During the Edo and Meiji Periods," in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 54/1:233-261.
1994b "Fifteen Years of Folk Song Collection in Japan:
Reports and Recordings of the 'Emergency Folk Song
Survey'," in Asian Folklore Studies 53/2:199-225.
1995 "Edo's 'Tin Pan Alley': Authors and Publishers of Japanese Popular Song During the Tokugawa Period," in Asian Music 27/1:1-36.

Guignard, Silvain
1986 "Structure and Performance of a Melodic Pattern, Haru Nagashi, in Chikuzen Biwa: some observations on its transmission in orality and literacy," in The Oral and the Literate in Music, ed. by Tokumaru and Yamaguti; Tokyo: Academia Musica: 273-287.
Gunji, Masakatsu
1968 Kabuki. Tokyo: Kodansha.
1971 Buyo: The Classical Dance. Translated by Don Kenny.
New York: Walker/Weatherhill.
Gutzwiller, Andreas
1974 Shakuhachi: Aspects of History, Practice, and Teaching.
Ph.D. dissertation, Wesleyan University.
1984 "The Shakuhachi of the Fuke-sect: instrument of Zen,"
in World of Music 26/3:53-65.
1992a "Polyphony in Japanese Music: Rokudan for Example,"
in Chime 5:50-57.
1992b "Rhythm in Shakuhachi Honkyoku," in European Studies in Ethnomusicology, ed. by M. P. Baumann, A. Simon, and U. Wegner. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag.
Gutzwiller, Andreas and Gerald Bennett
1991 "The World of a Single Sound: Basic Structure of the
Music of the Japanese Flute Shakuhachi," in Musica
Asiatica 6:36-59.
Hare, Thomas B.
1986 Zeami's Style: the Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Harich-Schneider, Eta
1983 "Dances and Songs of the Japanese Shinto Cult," in World of Music 25/1:16-29.
Havens, Thomas R. H.
1983 "Rebellion and Expression in Contemporary Japanese
Dance, " in Dance as Cultural Heritage, vol I. Betty True Jones, ed. New York: CORD.

Hayashi, Kenzo
1974 "Restoration of a Panpipe in the Shosoin," in Asian Music 6:15-27.
Herd, Judith Ann
1984 "Trends and taste in Japanese popular music: a case
study of the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Music Festival,"
in Popular Music 4:75-96.
1989 "The Neonationalist Movement: Origins of Contemporary
Japanese Music," in Perspectives of New Music 27/2:118- 163.
Hijikata, Tatsumi
1993 Three Decades of Butoh Experiment. Tokyo: Yushi-sha.
Hill, Jackson
1982 "Ritual Music in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism: Shingon Shomyo," in Ethnomusicology 26/1:27-40.
Hoff, Frank and Willi Flindt
1973 "The Life Structure of Noh," in Concerned Theatre Japan
II (3&4). Tokyo: Concerned Theatre Japan.
Holborn, Mark, ed.
1987 Butoh: Dance of the Dark Soul. New York: Aperture.
Honda, Yasuji
1974 "Yamabushi Kagura and Bangaku: performance in the
Japanese Middle Ages and Contemporary Folk
Performance," trans. by Frank Hoff in the Educational Theater Journal 26/2:192-208.
Howard, Gregg W.
1992 "On the 'Religious' in Music: Zen and Shakuhachi," In
Sound and Reason, ed. by W.A. Bebbington.
Hughes, David W.
1985 The Heart's Home Town: Traditional Folk Song in
Modern Japan. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms
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1990 "Japanese 'New Folk Songs,' Old and New," in Asian Music
22/1:1-50.
1992 "'Esashi Oiwake' and the Beginnings of Modern Japanese Folk Song," in The World of Music 34/1:35-56.
Isaku, Patria
1981 Mountain Storm, Pine Breeze: folksong in Japan. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press.
Ishii, Maki
1983 "Japan's 'Music of Encounter' -- historical background
and present role," in World of Music 25/1:80-90.
Ishii, Mikiko
1994 "The Noh Theater: Mirror, Mask, and Madness," in
Comparative Drama 28/1:43-66.
Itaya, Toru
1987 "The Torimono Dance: the reenactment of possession and
the genesis of a No-type performance," in Current
Anthropology 28/4:49-58.
Jinko, Katsumura
1986 "Some Innovations in Musical Instruments of Japan
During the 1920s," in Yearbook for Traditional Music
18:157-172.
Joji Yuasa
1989 "Music as a Reflection of a Composer's Cosmology," in
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Johnson, Irmgard
1981 "The Role of Amateur Participants in the Arts of No in Contemporary Japan," in Asian Music 13/2:115-133.
Johnson, Henry M.
1993 The Symbolism of the Koto: an ethnomusicology of the
form and function of a traditional Japanese musical
instrument. D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford.
1991 "Is There a Symbolism of the Koto?" in Tradition and its Future in Music: Report of SIMS Osaka, ed. by Tokumaru Yosihiko. Tokyo: Mita Press.
1996 "Koto Manufacture: the instrument, construction process,
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Jones, Betty True
1983 Dance as Cultural Heritage, vol I. Betty True Jones, ed. New York: CORD.
Jones, Stanleigh H., Jr., translator and annotator
1990 "Vengeance and its Toll in 'Numazu': an eighteenth century Japanese puppet play," in the Asian Theatre Journal 7/1:42-75.
1993 Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: a
Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet
Theater. New York: Columbia University Press.
Kakinoki, Goro
1974 "A Comparative Method on Japanese Melodic Styles in Structural Formulae," in Asian Music 6:60-87.
Karpati, Janos
1983 "Tonality in Japanese Court Music," in Studia
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Kawabata Shigeru
1991 "The Japanese Record Industry," in Popular Music 10/3:327-345.
Kawatake, Toshio
1971 A History of Japanese Theater, II: Bunraku and Kabuki.
Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai.
Keene, Donald
1961 Major Plays of Chikamatsu. New York: Columbia University Press.
1966 No, the Classical Theatre of Japan. Tokyo and Palo
Alto, Kodansha International.
1970 Twenty Plays of the No Theatre. New York.
1971 Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers. New
York: Columbia University Press.
1990 No and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Kenny, Don
1989 The Kyogen Book: an Anthology of Japanese Classical
Comedies. Tokyo: Japan Times.
Keil, Charles
1984 "Music Mediated and Live in Japan," in Ethnomusicology 28/1:91-96.
Kimiko, Ohtani
1991 "Japanese Approaches to the Study of Dance," in the Yearbook for Traditional Music 23:23-32.
Kimura Atsuko
1991 "Japanese Corporations and Popular Music," in Popular
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Kishibe, Shigeo
1969 Traditional Music of Japan. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai.
1970 "Means of Preservation and Diffusion of Traditional Music in Japan," in Asian Music 2/1:8-13.
1984 The Traditional Music of Japan. Tokyo: Ongaku no
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Kitagawa Junko
1991 "Some Aspects of Japanese Popular Music," in Popular
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Kiyoko, Motegi
1984 "Aural Learning in Gidayu-Bushi: music of the
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Klens, Deborah S.
1994 "Nihon Buyo in the Kabuki Training at Japan's National
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Kobashigawa, Ben
1985 "On the History of the Okinawans in North America," in
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Koizumi, Fumio
1977 "Musical Scales in Japanese Music," in Asian Musics in an
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1983 "The Theoretical Elements of Japanese Music: part I,"
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1983 "Rhythm: transitional aspects of music in time," in
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1956 Japanese Music and Drama in the Meiji Era. Tokyo.
Kozo, Yamaji
1983 "Early Kabuki Dance," in Dance as Cultural Heritage, vol I. Betty True Jones, ed. New York: CORD.
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1994 Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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1988 "Fu Ho U vs. Do Re Mi: The Technology of Notation Systems and Implications of Change in the Shakuhachi Tradition of Japan," in Asian Music 19/2:71-81.
1991 "Shakuhachi Honkyoku Notation: Written Sources in
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1991 "'Kumagai's Battle Camp': form and tradition in kabuki acting," in the Asian Theatre Journal 8/1:1-34.
1997 "The Kanamaru-za: Japan's Oldest Kabuki Theatre," in
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1970 "Music in the Tale of Genji," in Asian Music 2/1:39-42.
Mabuchi Usaburo
1991 "Source Criticism and Interpretation in Historical Research on Japanese Music with Reference to the Kajo- Theory of Tominaga Nakamoto," in Tradition and its Future in Music: Report of SIMS Osaka, ed. by Tokumaru Yosihiko. Tokyo: Mita Press.
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1996 "Beautiful Boys in No Drama: the Idealization of
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1979 "The Musical Structure of Heikyoku," in European Studies
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Malm, Joyce
1983 "The World of Japanese Classical Dance," in World of Music 25/1:70-79.
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1959 Japanese Music and Musical Instruments. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company.
1963 Nagauta: the Heart of Kabuki Music. Tokyo: Tuttle.
1969 "On the Nature and Function of Symbolism in Western
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1971 "Personal Approaches to the Study of Japanese Art Music," in Asian Music 3/1:35-39.
1972 "Layers of Modern Music and Japan," in Asian Music 4/2:3-6.
1974 "Chinese Music in 19th Century Japan," in Asian Music 6:147-172.
1977 Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
1978a "Japanese Music: a brief survey," in The World of Music 20/2:64-68.
1978b "Music in the Kabuki Theatre," in Studies in Kabuki:
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1980 "Some of Japan's Musics and Musical Principles," in Musics of Many Cultures, Elizabeth May, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.48-62.
1982 "A Musical Approach to the Study of Japanese Joruri," in Chushingura: studies in kabuki and the puppet theater, James R. Brandon, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
1983 "Japanese Music and its Relations to Other Musical Traditions," in The World of Music 25/1:5-15.
1986a Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music. Berkeley:
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1986b "A Century of Proletarian Music in Japan," in The
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1991 "Overseas Japanese Music and Marginal Survival," in Tradition and its Future in Music: Report of SIMS Osaka, ed. by Tokumaru Yosihiko. Tokyo: Mita Press.

Marett, Allan
1977 "Tunes Notated in Flute Tablature from a Japanese Source of the Tenth Century," in Musica Asiatica 1:1-60.
1985 "Togaku: where have the Tang melodies gone, and where have the new melodies come from?" in Ethnomusicology 29/3:409-431.
1988 "An Investigation of Sources for Chu Oga Ryuteki Yoroku-fu, a Japanese Flute Score of the Fourteenth Century," in Musica Asiatica 5:210-267.
1991 "SIssues of Authenticity and Tradition in the Interpretation of the Tenth Century Japanese Flute Manuscript, Hakuga no fue-fü," in Tokumaru Yosihiko, ed., Tradition and its Future in Music: Report of SIMS Osaka. Tokyo: Mita Press.
Mariko Asano Tamanoi
1991 "Songs as Weapons: the Culture and History of Komori (Nursemaids) in Modern Japan," in Journal of Asian Studies 50/4:793-817.
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1983 Saibara: Japanese court songs of the Heian Period.
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1988 "Pieces for Biwa in Calendrically Correct Tunings, from a manuscript in the Heian Museum, Kyoto," in Musica Asiatica 5:191-209.
Masakatsu, Gunji and Selma Jeanne Cohen
1983 "Virtuosity and the Aesthetic Ideals of Japanese
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1963 The Influence of the Meiji Period on Japanese Children's
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1989 "The Role of Traditional Japanese Instruments in Three
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1981 The History and Characteristics of Okinawan Dance.
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1983 "Japan in Japan: notes on an aspect of the popular music
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1976 Japanese Folksong and Song in Early Japan: an introduction. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University.
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1988 Kabuki Backstage, Onstage: An Actor's Life. Tokyo and
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1991 "Early Pop Song Writers and Their Backgrounds," in
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1974 Kibigaku: an Analysis of a Modern Japanese Ritual
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