Music in Kamigata Rakugo Performance

Rakugo is the Japanese tradition of staged comic storytelling presented by highly trained hanashika storytellers associated with small urban variety theatres called yose, found in the Kamigata and Edo regions. Although yose theatres are associated with spoken rather than musical events, music is an...

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Main Author: Catherine Hallett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2014-01-01
Series:New Voices
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Online Access:http://newvoices.org.au/volume-6/music-in-kamigata-rakugo-performance/