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Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Co-Existence, Japan

Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Co-Existence, Japan

de Ferranti, Hugh
Yoneno-Reyes, Michiyo
Shishikura, Masaya

Paperback

AnthropologyImmigration & RefugeesWorld Music

ISBN10: 9813252367
ISBN13: 9789813252363
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Published: Sep 27 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.50
Height: 0.87 Width: 8.98 Depth: 11.73
Language: English
An analysis of the role of music in Japanese migrant communities.

This collection of essays on the music of migrant minorities in and from Japan examines the central role music plays in the ongoing adjustment, conciliation, and transformation of newcomers and hosts alike. It is the first academic text to address musical activities across a range of migrant groups in Japan--particularly those of Tokyo and its neighboring areas and the first to juxtapose such communities with those of Japanese emigrants as ethnic minorities elsewhere. It presents both archival and fieldwork-based case studies that highlight music in the dynamics of encounter and attempted identity-making, under a unifying framework of migration.

The 2019 introduction of a new Specified Skilled Worker visa category marked the beginning of Japan's new immigration era, led by the slogan of tabunka kyosei, or multicultural coexistence. The contributors to this volume analyze the concept itself and the many problems around realizing this ideal through ethnographic accounts of current minorities, including South Indians, Brazilians, Nepalis, Filipinos, Iranians, and Ainu domestic migrants. This volume will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, students of the cultures of migrant communities, and those engaged with cultural change and diversity in Japan and East Asia.

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