Transnational Musicians

Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians establish their transnational careers in the hierarchically-structured classical music world.

Beata M. Kowalczyk is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznä, Poland.

Introduction 1. Theoretical and Methodological Approach 2. Positioning Japanese Classical Music within the Global Hierarchy of Value 3. The Plight of Musician in Japan 4. Studying Classical Music in its 'Birthplace': The Japanese go to Europe 5. Music Knows No Borders? Crisscrossing French, Polish and Japanese Music Milieus 6. Japanese Classical Musicians: Between Professional Satisfaction and Frustration Concluding Remarks: Transnationality as a 'Liminal status quo'