This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence; development; and demise of music; theatre; recitation; and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares; plazas; and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years this city was the centre of such arts; both sacred and secular. This study outlines the nature of the performances; explores the social relations which lay behind them; and reveals vast complexity: an obligation of gift-giving on the part of observers; performers who were often economic migrants fallen on hard times; relations of performance to social class; a class system much more finely gradated than the official four caste system; and institutions of professional organization and registration; enforced by government; with penalties for unregistered performers. The book discusses how performing; witnessing; and rewarding performance were closely bound up with economy; society and government; how the interaction between various groups related to socio-economic advancement; how the system of street performance reinforced social control; and how the balance between different groups shifted over time.
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