Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan (Contributions to the Study of Music & Dance)
By Susan M. Asai.
Description
N=omai dance drama, an artistic expression combining sacred, communal, economic, and cultural spheres of community life in the district of Higashidorimura, is a performing tradition that provides an identity to agriculturally based villages. It has retained features characteristic of the music, drama, and sacred practices of medieval Japan. N=omai singing exhibits traits linked to Buddhist chanting. The instrumental music originates from folk Shinto. This study highlights the social and cultural value n=omaii has for the residents in villages that perform it by providing the historical cont...
ISBN(s)
0313306982, 9780313306983
