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{{Short description|Traditional music form in Taiwan and Japan}}
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'''''Nakasi''''' ({{zh|c=那卡西|p=nàkǎxī}}) or {{nihongo|'''''Nagashi'''''|流し||lead=yes}} is a traditional popular music form in [[Japan]] 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.
[[File:Strolling accordionist and guitarists in the 1953 Japanese drama film Tokyo Story.jpg|thumb|right|A Nagashi band in a 1953 Japanese drama film ''[[Tokyo Story]]'']]

Lin Sheng-hsiang (林生祥) of {{Interlanguage link multi|Labor Exchange Band|zh|3=交工樂隊}} has described the style as "a very rustic and urban-rooty form of music, normally with a keyboard, which has replaced the [[accordion]], and drums accompanying the singers." [https://web.archive.org/web/20040915090420/http://www.farsidemusic.com/laborexchange.html]  As such, the form is a favorite of pro-labor bands and musical groups. One of the most prominent groups, [[Blackhand Nakasi]], is named after it.

[[Category:Music of Taiwan]]
[[Category:Popular music]]
[[Category:Japanese traditional music]]

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