GOZE

In Goze: Blind Women and Musical Performance in Traditional Japan, author Gerald Groemer argues that goze activism was primarily a m atter of the agency of performance itself. Groemer shows that the solidarity goze achieved with the rural public through narrative a nd music was based on the convergence of the goze's desire to achieve social autonomy and the wish of lower-class to mitigate the cu ltural deprivation to which they were otherwise so often subject. It was this correlation of emancipatory interests that allowed goz e to flo...[Read more]