Kouta and Karaoke in Modern Japan: A Blurring of the Distinction between Umgangsmusik and Darbietungsmusik. Hesselink, N. British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 3:49--61, January, 1994. ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: 1994 / Copyright �� 1994 British Forum for Ethnomusicology
Paper abstract bibtex The goal of this study is to provide new criteria for assessing the extent to which a non-Western musical culture has adapted to changes in society brought about by modernization. This is attempted through the analysis of performance behaviour based on a bipartite sociological/contextual model of comparison developed by Heinrich Besseler, later expanded upon by Doris Stockmann. Two examples of twentieth-century Japanese music practice are examined: 1) kouta, literally, "short songs", of the geisha community; and 2) the phenomenon of the karaoke "jukebox". Analysis reveals kouta and karaoke as sharing characteristics common to both categories of Besseler and Stockmann's scheme. This blurring of lines is seen as resulting from the imposing of Western models of performance behaviour on traditional Japanese ways of music making and communication.
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