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The title of this opening chapter “The World’s Finest School Bands and Largest Music Competition” may at first glance seem overstated and provocative, but it is amply undergirded by data rather than assumptions. Such descriptions are derived from an international rather than Japanese perspective on this subject, and illustrate the perennial challenge of reconciling the local (insider, or “emic”) and global (outsider, or “etic”) perspective within ethnographic research, a problem also illustrated by the choice of title for this book. In the original proposal sent to publishers, the manuscript was tentatively called Buraban, a slang term for “wind band” in Japanese. Many classic anthropological monographs have similarly featured a key term from the local language within their title, but I was concerned that this term might already be in use.
論 よ り 証 拠
Ron yori shoko
“Seeing is believing” – evidence rather than mere ideas
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Hebert, D.G. (2012). The World’s Finest School Bands and Largest Music Competition. In: Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2178-4_1
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