… “David Hebert introduces readers to Japanese wind band culture with his book Wind
Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools. … Written in conversational prose suited …

… Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools by David G. Hebert is the first …
historical and contemporary cultural milieu of school wind bands in the Japanese national context. …

… education literature within the Japanese cultural … wind bands in Japanese Schools and the
second being an ethnographical account by the author on the Tokyo Middle School wind band…

… teaching in school wind bands and the training practices of traditional Japanese music to all
… , extracurricular clubs are used to preserve Japanese cultural and social traditions that have …

… , national identity, and the song Kimigayo in particular – the first important wind band composition
in Japan … This chapter will address the role of national identity in Japanese wind bands …

… found in the title, ‘wind bands and cultural identity’, by summarising the principal traits of
the cultural markers of the Japanese school band genre, contrasting them with equivalent …

… band rehearsing Kimigayo, the Japanese national anthem, as a basis for exploring the role
of national identity in Japanese school wind bands… toward a nationalistic identity and existing …

… Westernization, as well as the role that band participation may play in national identity. … to
ongoing debates concerning wind band music, Japanese culture, and music education theory, …

… social history of wind bands in Japan that includes a … of wind bands in Japan, and these
have tended to consist of extremely brief accounts and timelines of a few key events within band …

… Japan Ministry of Education for “ethnographic research on the role of wind bands in Japanese
music education,… -winning school band in Tokyo, with attention to the cultural context of its …