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''Nakasi'' () or is a traditional popular music form in 
Lin Sheng-hsiang (林生祥) of has described the style as "a very rustic and urban-rooty form of music, normally with a keyboard, which has replaced the
As such, the form is a favorite of pro-labor bands and musical groups. One of the most prominent groups,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
and Taiwan, most stereotypically associated with elements of working-class culture such as the old tea parlors and drinking bars. One explanation supposes that the word describes the migratory lifestyle of Nakasi musicians, who traditionally travelled from one tea parlor to another.
Lin Sheng-hsiang (林生祥) of has described the style as "a very rustic and urban-rooty form of music, normally with a keyboard, which has replaced the accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
, and drums accompanying the singers.As such, the form is a favorite of pro-labor bands and musical groups. One of the most prominent groups,
Blackhand Nakasi
Black Hand or The Black Hand may refer to:
Extortionists and underground groups
* Black Hand (anarchism) (''La Mano Negra''), a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain during the early 1880s
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, is named after it.
Taiwanese music
Popular music
Japanese traditional music
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