Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan - Brossura

Bigenho, Michelle

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0822352354 ISBN 13: 9780822352358

Casa editrice: Duke University Press, 2012

Riassunto

What does it mean to play "someone else’s music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional musicians. Michelle Bigenho conducted part of her ethnographic research while performing with Bolivian musicians as they toured Japan. Drawing on interviews with Bolivian musicians as well as Japanese fans and performers of these traditions, Bigenho explores how transcultural intimacy is produced at the site of Andean music and its performances.

Bolivians and Japanese involved in these musical practices often express narratives of intimacy and racial belonging that reference shared but unspecified indigenous ancestors. Along with revealing the story of Bolivian music's route to Japan and interpreting the transnational staging of indigenous worlds, Bigenho examines these stories of closeness, thereby unsettling the East-West binary that often structures many discussions of cultural difference and exotic fantasy.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michelle Bigenho is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hampshire College. She is the author of Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance.

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Book by Bigenho Michelle

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Duke University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0822352354
• ISBN 13: 9780822352358
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244