TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abe,Marie
TI  - Resonances of chindon-ya: sounding space and sociality in contemporary Japan 
T2  - Music/culture
SN  - 9780819577788
AV  - ML3917 .J3A24 2018
U1  - 781.630952 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Middletown, Connecticut
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Chindon-ya
KW  - Music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Japan
KW  - Street music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Music in advertising
KW  - Street musicians
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index; Machine generated contents note; History & Philosophy
N2  - In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marie Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood streets. Historically not considered music, but part of the everyday soundscape, this vernacular performing art provides a window into shifting notions of musical labor, the politics of everyday listening and sounding, and street music at social protest in Japan. Against the background of long-term economic downturn, growing social precarity, and the visually and sonically saturated urban streets of Japan, this book examines how this seemingly outdated means of advertisement has recently gained traction as an aesthetic, economic, and political practice after decades of inactivity. Resonances of Chindon-ya challenges Western conceptions of listening that have normalized the way we think about the relationship between sound, space, and listening subjects, and advances a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the ways social fragmentation is experienced and negotiated in post-industrial societies
ER  -