Question
In a June festival held in this region since 1992, dancers with scarecrow clappers lift and tug in a style developed at a school. A onetime forestry officer from this region used its ritual music in his primitivistic Sinfonia Tapkaara, scored 300 films, and won his mentor Tcherepnin’s award with an orchestral Rhapsody. In an edgier style pioneered in this region by the blind street musician Nitabo, a flared tortoiseshell plectrum is struck on the dogskin drum of a thicker-necked lute with 3 large pegs that is tuned while playing jongara. This region’s (*) Yosakoi Soran Festival chants a call-and-response dokkoisho sea shanty by Takio Itō. Bukimisha sings a cappella renditions of the Godzilla score by a composer from this region, Akira Ifukube. The Yoshida Brothers’ percussive shredding exemplifies a shamisen style named for a peninsula in this region. For 10 points, name this region where upopo songs and yukar epics were sung in Ainu. ■END■
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 153.53 |