The Pioneer in the “Sound” World of Western Music: Japanese Military Band

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10.2991/assehr.k.211020.199How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Western music, military bands, Japanese, the Shogunate, Meiji Period, military reform, drums and fifes, horn, ceremony

Abstract

From the end of the Tokugawa period to the early Meiji Period, the governments had to open the door of Japan and carried out a series of reforms in response to both internal and external threats. To prevent colonization, the Shogunate decided to westernize its military system and establish military bands to transmit orders and improve morale. In the early Meiji Period, to accelerate modernization, the new Meiji government pushed the policy of “enriching the country and strengthening the military” and reformed national rituals based on the Western state ceremonies. The government organized military bands to perform Western music in national ceremonies and ushered in the large-scale dissemination of Western music in Japan. Throughout this process, military bands became the pioneer in the “sound” world of Western music and an important carrier of culture as they performed Western music across Japan.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziyun Lan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - The Pioneer in the “Sound” World of Western Music: Japanese Military Band
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 452
EP  - 457
SN  - 2352-5398
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