Groemer - Street performers and society in urban Japan, 1600-1900: the beggars gift

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 300 years the city of Edo/Tokyo was the center of both sacred and secular street arts in Japan, and pedestrians could witness a very wide range of performance. The book includes song texts and musical examples, but it goes beyond describing the performances and explores the social relations that 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; performances related to social class within a system that was much more finely gradated than the official four-caste order; and a registration system, organized 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 economic advancement and social control, and how the balance between different groups shifted over time.

Gerald Groemer is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Western Musicology at University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan.

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