![]() ![]() It was expected that every samurai have a dance or a song they could perform. Dancing and singing was also a part of a samurai's education. Noh was initially played at a tea party and guests were welcomed to join in for a cheer or a shout of praise. For a long time, singing and dancing remained the only entertainment in the rural area. ![]() It appeared in the earliest Japanese mythology. It has been common to provide a musical entertainment at a dinner or a party in Japan for a long time. In the United States, the word is often pronounced as /kɛɪrioki/. The term karaoke can be interpreted as "virtual orchestra" because one can specify a key to the music and start singing along without the presence of a live band or orchestra. It used to be a slang in media where a live performance is substituted by a pre-recorded music and thus it is written in katakana. The words together make a contraction literally meaning "empty orchestra". The Japanese word stems from the words kara (空), meaning "empty" (as in karate, "empty hand") and oke which is short for ōkesutora, meaning "orchestra". ![]()
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