Gerald Groemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 94256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Groemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Groemer |
| SIGNATURE | GROEMER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Yamanashi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868
Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western language. Edo Culture presents a selection of Nishiyama's writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of the daily life and diversions of the urban populace of the time. Many essays focus on th…
Goze: Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan
Contents Maps, Conventions Preface Introduction: Approaching the Chapter 1 The Production of Visual Disability Chapter 2 The Development of Echigo Associations Chapter 3 Learning the Art and Way of Life Chapter 4 Touring and Performing in Echigo: and their Audiences Chapter 5 Endings: Coerced Liberation Chapter 6 After the End: Songs in the Postwar Era Appendix: Document 1 Origins of the Goze, Commands of the Retired Emperor, and the Code Documen…
Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900: The Beggar's Gift
This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years this city was the centre of such arts, both sacred and secular. This study outlines the nature of the performances, explores the social relations which la…
Who Benefits? Religious Practice, Blind Women (Goze), Harugoma, and Manzai
It is often pointed out that religion centers on worldly (genze riyaku) and on practices allowing a petitioner to attain divine boons. Since high and low, rich and poor, young and old have always pined for such religious practice is easily viewed as a force unifying all social classes and strata. This article questions such a notion by examining the religious activities and performances of blind women (goze) of Echigo province (present-day Niigat…
Tamura Hachidayu and the “Masters of Sacred Dance
Binzasara: Music and Dance at Sensōji in Edo/Tōkyō
Dengaku, literally "field music" or "field entertainment," figures as one of the most important genres of traditional Japanese music, that is, music developed in Japan before the Meiji period (1868-1912). Dengaku has played a role in ceremonies at major religious institutions since at least the twelfth century and continues to be performed at many locations today, including the Kasuga Wakamiya shrine in Nara prefecture, the Nachi shrine in Wakaya…
Semiosis in Hindustani Music
The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan
The Guild of the Blind in Tokugawa Japan
IN Tokugawa Japan the blind engaged in a surprisingly large variety of occupations, from farming and handicrafts to musical performance, from literary creation and historical scholarship to money lending and acupuncture. Blind reciters took a leading role in the creation of the Tale of the Heike, a Buddhistinspired requiem for fallen warriors and one of Japan's most important epics. Most of the classical repertory for the koto was created by the …
The Creation of the Edo Outcaste Order
During the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) severe sanctions against those usually known as kawata (derogatorily labeled eta by others) and those labeled hinin (literally “nonhuman”) were codified in law and backed by state force. This article, focusing on the city of Edo, traces the political and social processes that led to the creation of an outcaste order in Japan. It argues that even though ideologies of “pollution” and “impurity” may have played…
A Short History of the Gannin: Popular Religious Performers in Tokugawa Japan
This paper traces the emergence and development of the gannin or gannin bŌzu, a group of religious performer-practitioners. The gannin, who were active in Kyoto, Osaka, Edo, as well as many rural areas, had their headquarters at the Kurama temple. Throughout the Tokugawa period, gannin engaged in proxy pilgrimages and provided the public with rites, exorcisms, and entertaining performances. Although the gannin are often portrayed in contemporaneo…
The Voice of the Khene: Enchanted Airs from the Lao Pan Flute. Music of Asia Collection. SevenOrients 777
The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan
Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors
The Beginnings of Western Music in Meiji Era Japan
The Arts of the Gannin
Popular religion in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) was supported by the efforts of many mendicant monk-like figures who provided the populace with prayers, invocations, and talismans, as well as with dancing, music, and recitation. One of the best known types of such monk-performers was the gannin bozu, who was affiliated, at least nominally, with the Kurama temple near Kyoto. Gannin arts, remnants of which can still be found throughout Japan, were h…
Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (And Queens, New York)
Tashkent Moscow to Tashkent An Uzbek Fellow Plan of the City The Conservatory A Russian Composer Finds the East The Last of the Jadids Neofeudalism with a Human Face The Singing Mullah Frozen Music A Traditional Innovator The Avatar of a Master A Contralto and a Pop Queen 2. Bukhara The Imaginal City A Drive to Bukhara A Bukharan Jewish Musical Dynasty The Cupola of Islam Redux More Frozen Music Two Wedding Entertainers Going West 3. The South: S…
Nō at the Crossroads: Commoner Performance during the Edo Period
Elite Culture for Common Audiences: Machiiri Nō and Kanjin Nō in the City of Edo
A History of Japanese Koto Music and Ziuta
Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868
Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The "Jiangnan Sizhu" Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Onkai to Nihonjin: Wakayama-ken no warabe uta kenkyu [The Japanese and Musical Scales: Studies of Children's Songs in Wakayama Prefecture]
The Beginnings of Western Music in Meiji Era Japan
This volume investigates the introduction of Western music into the educational system of Japan and reveals the existence of conflicting tendencies within both the early and late Meiji periods
The Creation of the Edo Outcaste Order
During the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) severe sanctions against those usually known as kawata (derogatorily labeled eta by others) and those labeled hinin (literally “nonhuman”) were codified in law and backed by state force. This article, focusing on the city of Edo, traces the political and social processes that led to the creation of an outcaste order in Japan. It argues that even though ideologies of “pollution” and “impurity” may have played…
Dodoitsubo Senka and the Yose of Edo
Semiosis in Hindustani Music
The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan
The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan
Fifteen Years of Folk Song Collection in Japan: "Reports and Recordings of the "Emergency Folk Song Survey
Evaluation du projet de collecte des chansons japonaises populaires (« min'yō ») et description des principales caracteristiques des rapports de recherche. Une attention particuliere est donnee aux problemes methodologiques lies a la classification des chansons
Singing The News: Yomiuri in Japan During The Edo and Meiji Periods
Durant la periode Edo (1603-1868) et une partie de la periode Meiji (1868-1912), les Japonais s'informaient grâce aux « yomiuri » (chanteurs-vendeurs) qui s'accompagnaient du « shamisen » (instrument a percussion) et vendaient des « kawaraban » (imprimes graves sur bois). Bien que certaines lois tenterent de censurer ces informations, souvent imagees et qu'il fallait interpreter, leur disparition n'eut lieu qu'avec l'arrivee des nouveaux medias e…
Die Shakuhachi der Kinko-Schule
The Way of the Pipa: Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music
Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Volume 9. Text, Context, and Performance in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Fifteen Years of Folk Song Collection in Japan: "Reports and Recordings of the "Emergency Folk Song Survey
Evaluation du projet de collecte des chansons japonaises populaires (« min'yō ») et description des principales caracteristiques des rapports de recherche. Une attention particuliere est donnee aux problemes methodologiques lies a la classification des chansons
Singing The News: Yomiuri in Japan During The Edo and Meiji Periods
Durant la periode Edo (1603-1868) et une partie de la periode Meiji (1868-1912), les Japonais s'informaient grâce aux « yomiuri » (chanteurs-vendeurs) qui s'accompagnaient du « shamisen » (instrument a percussion) et vendaient des « kawaraban » (imprimes graves sur bois). Bien que certaines lois tenterent de censurer ces informations, souvent imagees et qu'il fallait interpreter, leur disparition n'eut lieu qu'avec l'arrivee des nouveaux medias e…
The Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan. Adventures of a Tsugaru-jamisen Musician
"Edo's "Tin Pan Alley: Authors and Publishers of Japanese Popular Song during the Tokugawa Period
Onkai to Nihonjin: Wakayama-ken no warabe uta kenkyu [The Japanese and Musical Scales: Studies of Children's Songs in Wakayama Prefecture]
Dodoitsubo Senka and the Yose of Edo
The Beginnings of Western Music in Meiji Era Japan
This volume investigates the introduction of Western music into the educational system of Japan and reveals the existence of conflicting tendencies within both the early and late Meiji periods
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The "Jiangnan Sizhu" Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (And Queens, New York)
Tashkent Moscow to Tashkent An Uzbek Fellow Plan of the City The Conservatory A Russian Composer Finds the East The Last of the Jadids Neofeudalism with a Human Face The Singing Mullah Frozen Music A Traditional Innovator The Avatar of a Master A Contralto and a Pop Queen 2. Bukhara The Imaginal City A Drive to Bukhara A Bukharan Jewish Musical Dynasty The Cupola of Islam Redux More Frozen Music Two Wedding Entertainers Going West 3. The South: S…
Nō at the Crossroads: Commoner Performance during the Edo Period
Elite Culture for Common Audiences: Machiiri Nō and Kanjin Nō in the City of Edo
A History of Japanese Koto Music and Ziuta
Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868
Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868
The Arts of the Gannin
Popular religion in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) was supported by the efforts of many mendicant monk-like figures who provided the populace with prayers, invocations, and talismans, as well as with dancing, music, and recitation. One of the best known types of such monk-performers was the gannin bozu, who was affiliated, at least nominally, with the Kurama temple near Kyoto. Gannin arts, remnants of which can still be found throughout Japan, were h…
Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries
A Short History of the Gannin: Popular Religious Performers in Tokugawa Japan
This paper traces the emergence and development of the gannin or gannin bŌzu, a group of religious performer-practitioners. The gannin, who were active in Kyoto, Osaka, Edo, as well as many rural areas, had their headquarters at the Kurama temple. Throughout the Tokugawa period, gannin engaged in proxy pilgrimages and provided the public with rites, exorcisms, and entertaining performances. Although the gannin are often portrayed in contemporaneo…
The Voice of the Khene: Enchanted Airs from the Lao Pan Flute. Music of Asia Collection. SevenOrients 777
The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan
Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors
The Beginnings of Western Music in Meiji Era Japan
The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan
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