This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance that was witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years the city of Edo/Tokyo was the centre of such arts, both sacred and secular, and pedestrians could witness a very wide range of performance. The book includes song texts and musical examples. However, it goes beyond outlining the nature of the performances to explore the social relations which lay behind them. It reveals vast complexity: an obligation of gift-giving on the part of observers; performers who were often economic migrants fallen on hard times; how performance was related to social class, a class system which was much more finely gradated than the official four caste system; and a registration system, organised by government, with penalties for unregistered performance. The book discusses how performance and witnessing and rewarding performance were closely bound up with economy, society and government, how the interaction between various groups was connected both to social and economic advancement, and also to social control and the maintenance of the existing social order, and how the balance between different groups shifted over time.
Gerald Groemer is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Western Musicology at Yamanashi University, Kofu, Japan
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