This Element explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It takes into consideration mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and integration that helped shape musi…
This Element explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It takes into consideration mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and integration that helped shape musi…
This Element explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It takes into consideration mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and integration that helped shape musi…
This Element explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It takes into consideration mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and integration that helped shape musi…
This introduction to singing bowls (also known as Tibetan bells), describes their history, and gives practical information about procuring and using them as ritual and therapeutic tools.
What is a singing bowl? Explains the Himalayan bowls--also known as Tiben or Nepalese singing bowls--and the special sounds they make, called sound massage. The author discusses the meeting between East and West, singing bowls, sacrificial dishes, how the bowls work, synchroniza…
The emergence and popularization of taiko. Taiko drums and taiko drum makers ; Genealogies of taiko I : Osuwa Daiko, Sukeroku Daiko, Ondekoza ; Genealogies of taiko II : Ondekoza to Kodo ; Placing ensemble taiko in Japan : festival creation and the taiko boom -- Discourses of co…
With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among ta…
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, 'Taiko Boom' explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades of rapid economic growth in Japan's cities and countryside.
With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among ta…
