Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. By the time Japan’s Underground Record Club released Sachiko Kanenobu’s debut album Misora in 1972, the Osaka-born ...

Workspace Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Journal of the International Folk Music Council Vol. 13, 1961 The Collection and ...

OFUNATO, Japan (Reuters) - The Urahama district of this northeastern Japanese coastal city had for centuries marked religious ceremonies, and mourned their dead, with a dynamic sword dance by masked ...

To composers Zach Johnston and Matteo Roberts, music is never an afterthought in storytelling. The duo, collectively known as Pep Magic, is behind the score of Netflix’s new animated series, “Oni: ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Jerome White Jr moves like a U.S. rap star and sings like a Japanese crooner. The 26-year-old from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has stormed the charts here with his soulful ...

If we wish to see in the world something more than our own image, to learn from the lifeways of others, to be stimulated by another's aesthetic thought, Secretary Robert McC. Adams reflected in the ...