Alison Tokita
Biographic Data
| ID | 114693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Tokita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Tokita |
| SIGNATURE | TOKITA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0614-7893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre
Popular Music in Japan
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Japanese Singers of Tales
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance. Performed narratives are examples of a shared cultural heritage, which in the past have given people a sense of belonging to a community. Narratives t…
Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan
Contents: Preface Part I Osakan Modernity: the Context: Locating the musics of modern Osaka, Hugh de Ferranti and Alison Tokita Aural Osaka: listening to the modern city, Jeffrey E. Hanes. Part II Creation of a Modern Musical Culture: Marketing the performing arts in Osaka before the 20th century, Gerald Groemer The growth of Western art music appreciation in Osaka during the 1920s, Ueno Masaaki The piano as symbol of modernity in prewar Kansai, …
A History of Japanese Theatre
Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo s…
Bi-musicality in modern Japanese culture
This paper explores bi-musicality in modern Japan, and compares it with bilinguality at societal and individual levels. It considers the usefulness and limitations of the comparison of language and music. It establishes a model of musical competence as a preliminary to considering bi-musical competence, and schematizes the differences between Japanese and Western musical cultures for this purpose. In considering the relevance of bilingualism to t…
Takarazuka and the Musical Modan in the Hanshin Region 1914-1942
In discussing musical modernity in the Hanshin region in this era, this chapter tells us two stories: the story of Kobayashi Ichizō's formation and development of Takarazuka from 1914, and the story of Joseph Laska's formation and development of the Takarazuka Symphony orchestra in 1926. The music-theatre form of the Takarazuka All-women's Opera troupe has become well-known through the work of Jennifer Robertson and others, particularly from a ge…
Trespasses
ERIC CAZDYN (ed.). Trespasses: Selected Writings by Masao Miyoshi . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Post-Contemporary Interventions Series. 384 pp. US$26.95, paper. Masao Miyoshi (1
Chapter Twelve. The Piano And Cultural Modernity In East Asia
This chapter shows that Western music has become an important part of modern Asian culture and that already in prewar Japan the piano had become a symbol of cultural modernity. The fundamental questions to be addressed in this chapter are: Why did Western classical (art) music (piano in particular) become such an important part of modern East Asian culture? Why was it privileged above all other forms of high culture? How was it perceived by those…
The Spirit of Tsugaru
Book Review| January 01 2006 The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-Jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-Jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan, Gerald Groemer and Takahashi Chikuzan. Alison Tokita Alison Tokita Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicolog…
The Reception of the Heike Monogatari as Performed Narrative
The Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike ) is a formative legend in Japanese history, which as a literary classic has had an enormous impact in Japanese cultural history. With multiple extant texts, reception studies of the Heike are complex. Furthermore, the Heike is also a performance art, a musical narrative generally called heikyoku. Because of the power and importance of the story, the key episodes of the Tale crossed over into other perf…
Nomai Dance Drama
Nomai Dance Drama
The Nature of patterning in Japanese narrative music
As in other areas of Japanese culture, patterning is central to music narratives. This article introduces the term ‘formulaic musical material’ as the equivalent of kata in other performing arts. The formulaic musical material of various narrative genres has been systematised over the centuries. Especially when named, patterning has functioned as a compositional device, as a means of transmission, as a method of notation, and more recently, as a …
Mode and Scale, Modulation and Tuning in Japanese Shamisen Music
Etude du materiel tonal utilise dans la musique « shamisen » de recit : le « kiomoto-bushi ». L'histoire de la theorie modale au Japon montre que la theorie occidentale et chinoise de la structure de l'octave n'est pas appropriee a la musique japonaise dans laquelle la structure de trois notes est fondamentale. Le materiel tonal est constitue d'une gamme composee de deux fois trois notes et de trois tons nucleaires. L'A. aborde aussi la tonalite,…
The place of literature in Japanese studies today
(1994). The place of literature in Japanese studies today. Japanese Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 1-8
A history of Buddhism in Australia
The Nature of patterning in Japanese narrative music
As in other areas of Japanese culture, patterning is central to music narratives. This article introduces the term ‘formulaic musical material’ as the equivalent of kata in other performing arts. The formulaic musical material of various narrative genres has been systematised over the centuries. Especially when named, patterning has functioned as a compositional device, as a means of transmission, as a method of notation, and more recently, as a …
A history of Buddhism in Australia
The place of literature in Japanese studies today
(1994). The place of literature in Japanese studies today. Japanese Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 1-8
Mode and Scale, Modulation and Tuning in Japanese Shamisen Music
Etude du materiel tonal utilise dans la musique « shamisen » de recit : le « kiomoto-bushi ». L'histoire de la theorie modale au Japon montre que la theorie occidentale et chinoise de la structure de l'octave n'est pas appropriee a la musique japonaise dans laquelle la structure de trois notes est fondamentale. Le materiel tonal est constitue d'une gamme composee de deux fois trois notes et de trois tons nucleaires. L'A. aborde aussi la tonalite,…
The Nature of patterning in Japanese narrative music
As in other areas of Japanese culture, patterning is central to music narratives. This article introduces the term ‘formulaic musical material’ as the equivalent of kata in other performing arts. The formulaic musical material of various narrative genres has been systematised over the centuries. Especially when named, patterning has functioned as a compositional device, as a means of transmission, as a method of notation, and more recently, as a …
Nomai Dance Drama
Nomai Dance Drama
The Reception of the Heike Monogatari as Performed Narrative
The Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike ) is a formative legend in Japanese history, which as a literary classic has had an enormous impact in Japanese cultural history. With multiple extant texts, reception studies of the Heike are complex. Furthermore, the Heike is also a performance art, a musical narrative generally called heikyoku. Because of the power and importance of the story, the key episodes of the Tale crossed over into other perf…
The Spirit of Tsugaru
Book Review| January 01 2006 The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-Jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-Jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan, Gerald Groemer and Takahashi Chikuzan. Alison Tokita Alison Tokita Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicolog…
Chapter Twelve. The Piano And Cultural Modernity In East Asia
This chapter shows that Western music has become an important part of modern Asian culture and that already in prewar Japan the piano had become a symbol of cultural modernity. The fundamental questions to be addressed in this chapter are: Why did Western classical (art) music (piano in particular) become such an important part of modern East Asian culture? Why was it privileged above all other forms of high culture? How was it perceived by those…
Takarazuka and the Musical Modan in the Hanshin Region 1914-1942
In discussing musical modernity in the Hanshin region in this era, this chapter tells us two stories: the story of Kobayashi Ichizō's formation and development of Takarazuka from 1914, and the story of Joseph Laska's formation and development of the Takarazuka Symphony orchestra in 1926. The music-theatre form of the Takarazuka All-women's Opera troupe has become well-known through the work of Jennifer Robertson and others, particularly from a ge…
Trespasses
ERIC CAZDYN (ed.). Trespasses: Selected Writings by Masao Miyoshi . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Post-Contemporary Interventions Series. 384 pp. US$26.95, paper. Masao Miyoshi (1
Bi-musicality in modern Japanese culture
This paper explores bi-musicality in modern Japan, and compares it with bilinguality at societal and individual levels. It considers the usefulness and limitations of the comparison of language and music. It establishes a model of musical competence as a preliminary to considering bi-musical competence, and schematizes the differences between Japanese and Western musical cultures for this purpose. In considering the relevance of bilingualism to t…
Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan
Contents: Preface Part I Osakan Modernity: the Context: Locating the musics of modern Osaka, Hugh de Ferranti and Alison Tokita Aural Osaka: listening to the modern city, Jeffrey E. Hanes. Part II Creation of a Modern Musical Culture: Marketing the performing arts in Osaka before the 20th century, Gerald Groemer The growth of Western art music appreciation in Osaka during the 1920s, Ueno Masaaki The piano as symbol of modernity in prewar Kansai, …
A History of Japanese Theatre
Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo s…
Japanese Singers of Tales
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance. Performed narratives are examples of a shared cultural heritage, which in the past have given people a sense of belonging to a community. Narratives t…
Popular Music in Japan
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre
Art (13 works) · History (11 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)