Fence, flavor, and phantasm: Japanese musicians and the meanings of ‘Japaneseness’

摘要: This paper explores senses of ‘Japaneseness’ among Japanese musicians today by considering the words 32 musicians—from koto and shakuhachi masters to jazz saxophonists, rock guitarists, classical electronic composers—in a provincial city. Their diverse cultural identity are analyzed through three metaphors which they express themselves: Japaneseness as fence, walling off from change foreignness, flavor be enjoyed anyone in world who so chooses, phantasm: obliterated, created anew if enough people can convinced validity such recreation. suggests that these may useful explicating across broad range settings beyond music.