Gerald Groemer: 2 books
Goze
Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In a tradition extending from the medieval era to the early twentieth century, visually disabled Japanese women known as goze toured the countryside as professional singers. An integral part of rural musical culture, the goze sang unique narratives of their own making and a significant repertory of...
Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900
The Beggar's Gift
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years this...