Goze : women, musical performance, and visual disability in traditional Japan
著者
書誌事項
Goze : women, musical performance, and visual disability in traditional Japan
Oxford University Press, c2016
- : pbk
- : hardback
大学図書館所蔵 全15件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-295) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In a tradition extending from the medieval era to the early twentieth century, visually disabled Japanese women known as goze toured the Japanese countryside as professional singers and contributed to the vitality of rural musical culture. The goze sang unique narratives (many requiring several hours to perform) as well as a huge repertory of popular ballads and short songs, typically accompanied by a three-stringed lute known as the shamisen. During the Edo period
(1600-1868) goze formed guild-like occupational associations and created an iconic musical repertory. They were remarkably successful in fighting discrimination accorded to women, people with physical disabilities, the poor, and itinerants, using their specialized art to connect directly to the
commoner public. The best documented goze lived in Echigo province in the Japanese northwest. Although their activities peaked in the nineteenth century, some women continued to tour until the middle of the twentieth. The last active goze survived until 2005.
In Goze: Blind Women and Musical Performance in Traditional Japan, author Gerald Groemer argues that goze activism was primarily a matter of the agency of performance itself. Groemer shows that the solidarity goze achieved with the rural public through narrative and music was based on the convergence of the goze's desire to achieve social autonomy and the wish of lower-class to mitigate the cultural deprivation to which they were otherwise so often subject. It was this correlation of
emancipatory interests that allowed goze to flourish and attain a degree of social autonomy. Far from being pitied as helpless victims, goze were recognized as masterful artisans who had succeeded in transforming their disability into a powerful social tool and who could act as agents of widespread cultural
development.
As the first full-length scholarly work on goze in English, this book is sure to prove an invaluable resource to scholars and students of Japanese culture, Japanese music, ethnomusicology, and disability studies worldwide.
目次
Contents
Maps, Conventions
Preface
Introduction: Approaching the Goze
Chapter 1 The Production of Visual Disability
Chapter 2 The Development of Echigo Goze Associations
Chapter 3 Learning the Goze Art and Way of Life
Chapter 4 Touring and Performing in Echigo: Goze and their Audiences
Chapter 5 Endings: Coerced Liberation
Chapter 6 After the End: Goze Songs in the Postwar Era
Appendix: Document 1 "Origins of the Goze," "Commands of the Retired Emperor," and the "Goze Code"
Document 2 The 1884 "Regulations of the Takada Goze Association"
Document 3 The 1901 "Revised Regulations of the Takada Goze"
Document 4 The 1898 "Regulations of the Nagaoka Goze Association"
References
「Nielsen BookData」 より