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Music and Dance as Export and Import: A Case Study of Japan in Europe, and Hawai'i in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2018

Adrienne L. Kaeppler
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This essay explores music/dance as a cultural export and import, and how it may be changed and interpreted/reinterpreted by the exporter and importer, using Japan as a case study. Although I am a Pacific anthropologist, I have studied a variety of Asian musics and dances, as well as Pacific ones. I started my studies of Japanese music and dance forms in Hawai'i and extended them in Japan, especially my studies of gagaku, bugaku, and kagura. I also studied Hawaiian music and dance with some of the most knowledgeable and venerated Hawaiian teachers. But along the way, I stopped my earlier studies of violin, piano, voice, and ballet/modern dance to concentrate on what might be considered “exotic.” In this essay, I combine my interest in Japanese and Hawaiian musics/dances with my interest in concepts of “the exotic.”

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 45 , 2013 , pp. 214 - 230
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Copyright © 2013 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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