Focus Music in Contemporary Japan

Focus  Music in Contemporary Japan
Author: Jennifer Milioto Matsue
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781317649540

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Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan explores a diversity of musics performed in Japan today, ranging from folk song to classical music, the songs of geisha to the screaming of underground rock, with a specific look at the increasingly popular world of taiko (ensemble drumming). Discussion of contemporary musical practice is situated within broader frames of musical and sociopolitical history, processes of globalization and cosmopolitanism, and the continued search for Japanese identity through artistic expression. It explores how the Japanese have long negotiated cultural identity through musical practice in three parts: Part I, "Japanese Music and Culture," provides an overview of the key characteristics of Japanese culture that inform musical performance, such as the attitude towards the natural environment, changes in ruling powers, dominant religious forms, and historical processes of cultural exchange. Part II, "Sounding Japan," describes the elements that distinguish traditional Japanese music and then explores how music has changed in the modern era under the influence of Western music and ideology. Part III, "Focusing In: Identity, Meaning and Japanese Drumming in Kyoto," is based on fieldwork with musicians and explores the position of Japanese drumming within Kyoto. It focuses on four case studies that paint a vivid picture of each respective site, the music that is practiced, and the pedagogy and creative processes of each group. The accompanying CD includes examples of Japanese music that illustrate specific elements and key genres introduced in the text. A companion website includes additional audio-visual sources discussed in detail in the text. Jennifer Milioto Matsue is an Associate Professor at Union College and specializes in modern Japanese music and culture.

Focus on Japan

Focus on Japan
Author: Celia Tidmarsh
Publsiher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 083686722X

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Explores the history, culture and people of Japan, an archipelago consisting of 6,800 Asian islands.

Focus on a Changing Japan

Focus on a Changing Japan
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: PURD:32754077533028

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Choose and Focus

Choose and Focus
Author: Ulrike Schaede
Publsiher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801460555

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Between 2002 and 2008, Japan's economy saw constant expansion, a record among the world's advanced economies and Japan's longest period of economic growth since World War II. This remarkable achievement came about because of a transformation of Japanese business practices. This transformation was guided by strategies that enabled Japan's leading corporations, previously diversified to an exceptionally high degree, to become leaner, more nimble, and more competitive at home and in the global economy. In Choose and Focus, the first in-depth account of this strategic inflection point in Japanese business, Ulrike Schaede argues that the emerging practices and attitudes have created a New Japan. Drawing on profiles of several corporations, including Panasonic, Takeda and Astellas, Softbank, kakaku.com, and SBI E*Trade, Schaede explains how the fundamental principles of Japan's economy have been overturned. "Choose and focus" strategies, whereby corporations concentrate on core areas and spin off unrelated businesses, have completely altered the strategic logic of Japan's previous industrial architecture. These surprisingly aggressive moves, Schaede finds, have created new market opportunities for start-up enterprises and foreign investors, as well as a wave of mergers, acquisitions, and hostile takeovers that have shaken Japanese companies out of complacency. Unlike the advances made by Japanese firms in the 1970s and 1980s, the current transformation is taking root in component and materials industries rather than in consumer products. Because of the relative obscurity of the changes and the overshadowing story of China's ascent, the Japanese corporate revolution has gone largely unnoticed among Western observers. Choose and Focus is required reading for anyone doing business in Japan or trying to understand how contemporary Japanese business works and how Japanese corporations have reinvented themselves to face the challenges—and realize the opportunities—of the 21st century.

Focus Japan

Focus Japan
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2003
Genre: Industries
ISBN: UGA:32108036363250

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Focus China

Focus China
Author: René Haak,Hanns-Günther Hilpert
Publsiher: IUDICIUM Verlag
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783891298442

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Despite the dynamic growth of its economy over the last 20 years, China still has a long way to go to catch up with Japan. In commercial and technological terms, Japan is still the dominant economy in East Asia and is still the leading source of product, production and management innovations in the region, especially in the automotive and electronic industries. However, China is closing the gap year by year. The development of bilateral foreign trade, the increase of Japanese FDI and ODA towards China, and intensified financial and technical co-operation illustrate the considerable potential for mutually profitable business. The Chinese market is opening up and Chinese products are increasingly gaining competitiveness in world markets, threatening the incumbent Japanese firms. Japanese and Chinese companies face each other across a changing competitive environment, which is posing new challenges to corporate and business strategies. Within the context of these developments this book looks from different perspectives at how Japanese companies are reacting to the challenges and opportunities offered by China.

Focus on World History

Focus on World History
Author: Kathy Sammis
Publsiher: Walch Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0825143705

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Topics include: Empires and societies of Eurasia. European Renaissance and Reformation. Causes and consequences of the age of revolutions. Interactions and conflicts between Europe and Asia.

Focus

Focus
Author: Gerald J. Lynch,Michael W. Watts,Donald R. Wentworth
Publsiher: Council for Economic Educat
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1561834963

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The study of international economic systems teaches about global production and competition, exchange rates, international finance, free trade vs. protectionism and economic development.