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The chrysanthemum and the song : music, memory, and identity in the South American Japanese diaspora /

Music helps form and nurture ethnic identity for large populations of people of Japanese descent in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Paraguay. In a story never before told, Dale Olsen offers a musical history and ethnography of this vibrant Asian diaspora, the largest population of overseas Jap...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olsen, Dale A. (Dale Alan)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2004.
Colección:New World diasporas series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations ix; List of Tables xii; List of Audio Examples xiii; Foreword xvii; Acknowledgments xxi; Orthography xxvii; 1. Introduction: Music Making, Memory, and Dimensions of Ethnicity 1; 2. Emigration and Music from the Japanese Homelands 20; 3. Peru 38; 4. Brazil 85; 5. Argentina 157; 6. Paraguay 198; 7. Bolivia 210; 8. Song Contests: Musical Intersections and the Shaping of JapaneseIdentity 245; 9. Karaoke: Mediated Music and Singing, Social Functions, and Identity 254; 10. Social Variables of Identity through Music: Qualitative and QuantitativeApproaches 267
  • 11. Conclusion: Music Making and Cultural Survival 295Notes 303; Appendixes 309; Glossary 315; Bibliography 325; Index 335