Books by Luciana Galliano
Yōgaku: Japanese Music in Twentieth Century, 2002
The book explores the Japanese adoption of European music theory, history and language and the bu... more The book explores the Japanese adoption of European music theory, history and language and the building of the Japanese contemporary music world
Lexington Booka, 2019
The book investigates the Fluxus output of 1958-1968 in Japan.
The book proposes a radical new u... more The book investigates the Fluxus output of 1958-1968 in Japan.
The book proposes a radical new understanding of the international artistic movement Fluxus. It is based on an in-depth study of Fluxus’s Japanese context and a thorough re-examination of primary sources in Japanese. It focuses on the key role Japanese artists played within the international movement and the radicalism and originality of their poetics.
Papers by Luciana Galliano
L’estetica del vuoto Vuoti, pieni, suoni, silenzi, presenze, assenza, Apr 21, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Feb 24, 2023
Nichibunken Japan review : bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2006
Il contatto con il pensiero buddhista, 2007
Perspectives of New Music, 2006
The paper reconstructs the role the Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933-2022) played in the ... more The paper reconstructs the role the Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933-2022) played in the New York avantgarde scene in late '50, and specifically in the "non-art" movement called Fluxus - a participation he initially played downd but then admitted with the growth of the movement's prestige and importance on the contemporary art scene
Page 1. Japan Review, 2006, 18:215-248 Manfred Gurlitt and the Japanese Operatic Scene, 1939-1972... more Page 1. Japan Review, 2006, 18:215-248 Manfred Gurlitt and the Japanese Operatic Scene, 1939-1972 Luciana GALLIANO Venice University “Ca'Foscari,” Venice, Italy Manfred Gurlitt (1890-1972), a gifted composer and conductor ...
Manfred Gurlitt (1890-1972), a gifted composer and conductor, came to feel he had to escape his n... more Manfred Gurlitt (1890-1972), a gifted composer and conductor, came to feel he had to escape his native Germany in the late 1930s, as did many other musicians. Although he had, in an idiosyncratic fashion, come to terms with the National Socialist regime, he exiled himself to Japan in 1939, hoping to obtain a position that would allow him to maintain or even to burnish his reputation in the world of music. His most brilliant earlier successes had been in opera, and in Japan his career was mainly linked with opera. He worked diligently to affirm the “correct ” European way of performing the operatic repertoire, and produced many first-time productions of high quality. His competent, rigorous work in the field grounded the whole operatic domain of postwar Japan, and indeed his influence continues to be felt to this day. An article in the Mainichi shin-bun in 1956 stated that “no musician has had such a vast and important influence over the Japanese musical world. ” His years in Japan, ...
Rivista Italiana Di Musicologia, 2014
Over the last fifty years, the music of Joji Yuasa has attained the zenith of international music... more Over the last fifty years, the music of Joji Yuasa has attained the zenith of international musical standards. A study of this great Japanese composer is long overdue. Persuasive and captivating, less "easy" than that of his lifetime friend Toru Takemitsu, Yuasa's music has also been a model for many young composers, both from Japan and further afield, thanks to the long period he spent teaching composition at the University of California, San Diego (1981-1994). This book serves to illuminate aspects of Yuasa's work, intricately linked to deep, native roots which tend to be more opaque for western (and other) ears. It focusses on various aspects of Yuasa's music as well as on the social, anthropological, aesthetic and critical contexts that have informed his compositional practice in the context of the postwar Japanese musical world. In a continual interior dialogue which includes Jean-Paul Sartre and Daisetzu T. Suzuki, Matsuo Basho and William Faulkner, Henry...
Part 1 Foreword to the Italian Edition Part 2 Foreword to the English Edition Part 3 Acknowledgme... more Part 1 Foreword to the Italian Edition Part 2 Foreword to the English Edition Part 3 Acknowledgments Part 4 Note on the Transliteration of Japanese Terms and Names Part 5 Part I: Introduction: Traditional Japanese Cultural Values and Japan's Transition into the Twentieth Century Part 6 1 The Introduction of Western Music Part 7 2 The Evolution of a Western-Style Musical Language in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Part 8 3 A New Musical World Part 9 4 Nationalism and Music Part 10 Part II: 5 The Cultural and Social Situation in the Postwar Period Part 11 6 The Postwar Avant-Garde Part 12 7 The 1960s Part 13 8 The Closing Decades of the Twentieth Century Part 14 Appendix A: List of Japanese Names Part 15 Appendix B: List of Aesthetic and Musical Terms Part 16 Bibliography Part 17 Index Part 18 About the Author
paviauniversitypress.it
PP M u sica ch e affro n ta il silen zio. S critti su T ō ru T ak em itsu B orioG allian o Edito... more PP M u sica ch e affro n ta il silen zio. S critti su T ō ru T ak em itsu B orioG allian o Editoria scientifica Pavia University Press a cura di/edited by Gianmario BorioLuciana Galliano Music Facing Up to Silence Writings on Tōru ...
Japan Review, 2006
Manfred Gurlitt (1890-1972), a gifted composer and conductor, came to feel he had to escape his n... more Manfred Gurlitt (1890-1972), a gifted composer and conductor, came to feel he had to escape his native Germany in the late 1930s, as did many other musicians. Although he had, in an idiosyncratic fashion, come to terms with the National Socialist regime, he exiled himself to Japan in 1939, hoping to obtain a position that would allow him to maintain or even to burnish his reputation in the world of music. His most brilliant earlier successes had been in opera, and in Japan his career was mainly linked with opera. He worked diligently to affirm the "correct" European way of performing the operatic repertoire, and produced many first-time productions of high quality. His competent, rigorous work in the field grounded the whole operatic domain of postwar Japan, and indeed his influence continues to be felt to this day. An article in the Mainichi shinbun in 1956 stated that "no musician has had such a vast and important influence over the Japanese musical world." His years in Japan, however, were spent with an underlying sentiment of displacement. His sense of unease was compounded by dissatisfaction with and unfulfilled desire for Western (particularly German) acknowledgment of the merit of his work. In this article I aim to shed new light on the place of Manfred Gurlitt in twentieth-century music history by reexamining his Japanese activity, with some reference to his early oeuvre as a composer and success as a conductor in Germany.
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Books by Luciana Galliano
The book proposes a radical new understanding of the international artistic movement Fluxus. It is based on an in-depth study of Fluxus’s Japanese context and a thorough re-examination of primary sources in Japanese. It focuses on the key role Japanese artists played within the international movement and the radicalism and originality of their poetics.
Papers by Luciana Galliano
The book proposes a radical new understanding of the international artistic movement Fluxus. It is based on an in-depth study of Fluxus’s Japanese context and a thorough re-examination of primary sources in Japanese. It focuses on the key role Japanese artists played within the international movement and the radicalism and originality of their poetics.