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• W2292970586 abstract "Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative Alison McQueen Tokita. SOAS Musicology Series. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. xv + 294 pp. Bibliog. Index. CD. ISBN 978-0-7546-5379-0. 70.00 [pounds sterling]. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Japan has kept musical narrative traditions alive for ten centuries. Alison Tokita rightly points this out in her insightful book, Japanese Singers of Tales, adding that the 'Japanese have shown a strong preference for stories with music'. Indeed, people in contemporary Japan gladly pay expensive admission fees to enjoy centuries-old theatrical sagas, and monks and lay Buddhists alike chant and sing ancient and medieval religious anecdotes, both in institutional and personal rituals. While some of these forms have experienced relatively little change, new forms of narrative art have also evolved and enriched the culture. It can be overwhelming to trace closely the continuity of such traditions, and the variations of evolving new styles are so numerous and complex that one might hesitate to attempt a thorough overview. Tokita, nonetheless, has risen to the challenge, and the result is an impressive and significant contribution to scholarship on the topic. As the title suggests, the book is, in a way, a Japanese version of Albert B. Lord's The Singer of Tales (1960). Japanese Singers of Tales indicates that there is continuity in formulaic musical expression in the Japanese narrative, but that it does not fit the Parry-Lord model of oral narrative. The book is a comprehensive work, making it a valuable, and perhaps essential, new academic guide to Japanese narrative traditions. Also significant is that the study is informed not only by European scholarship but also by modern Japanese ethnomusicology and the viewpoint of the professional narrative performer. This approach is able more sensitively to capture the uniqueness of the Japanese oral arts, in the sense that Japanese performance narratives have long been textualized but that textuality has not disturbed the diversity of the genre. Chapter 1 introduces the theoretical background and method of the study, and also situates Japanese musical narratives in a global context. Chapter 2 takes up musical Buddhist preaching. The tradition of preaching by stories with melody, according to Tokita, goes all the way back to the tenth century. Formal ritual sermons of this kind are still performed in Buddhist temples, while more secular derivations have developed into separate narrative traditions. Chapter 3 explicates The Tale of Heike 'as a mix of warrior tale and romance' (p. 22) and closely examines two of the best-known episodes. …" @default.
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