Question

Fumio Koizumi, who names the national Japanese prize for ethnomusicology, is credited with launching the study of this musical tradition in Japan. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this musical tradition that was the foremost influence on ethnomusicologists Mantle Hood and Jaap Kunst. Percussive ensembles play this musical tradition alongside cultural events, such as wayang shadow plays.
ANSWER: gamelan [or gambelan; prompt on Indonesian or Balinese music]
[10h] This style of Western Balinese gamelan uses bamboo instruments and four-tone tuning. Geinoh Yamashirogumi, one of the few foreign collectives who play this gamelan style, recorded the score for the anime film Akira.
ANSWER: jegog
[10m] The album Technodelic by Japanese synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra samples gamelan and kecak, a Balinese dance in which a performer playing one of these mythological beings dances on embers while under a trance.
ANSWER: vānaras [accept monkeys or Hanumān]
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2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y210.00100%0%0%

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