Transmission of Japanese Jiuta Sokyoku for Shamisen and Koto

Transmission of Japanese Jiuta Sokyoku for Shamisen and Koto: Negotiating Musical Identity offers a rich and compelling exploration of Japan's refined chamber music tradition for voice, shamisen (3-string lute), and koto (13-string zither). Tracing the genre's evolution from the seventeenth century to the present, the book reveals how jiuta soyoku has continually reinvented itself, moving from a t...