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Tears of longing : nostalgia and the nation in Japanese popular song /
"Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the "nihonjin no kokoro" (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka's primary audience, this music - of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers - ev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2002.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
206. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The cultural logic of enka's imaginary ; Collective remembering, collective forgetting ; Localizing the national, nationalizing the local ; Patterning forms through kata
- 2. Inventing enka : definitions, genres, pasts ; Defining "enka" ; Meiji era (1868-1912) ; Taishō era (1912-1926) ; Shōwa era (1926-1989) ; Heisei era (1989-present)
- 3. Producing enka : lessons in perseverance ; The enka industry : metaphors for the nation ; The making of a singer : imaging the imaginary ; The making of a hit song
- 4. Enka on stage : patterning the practices of intimacy ; Live performances : creating a display of patterned intimacy ; Mediated performances : broadcasting intimacy
- 5. Clichés of excess : words, music, bodies, and beyond ; Textual kata : a modern musical recasting of waka ; Musical kata : aural processes of the past ; Bodily kata : gendered display ; Beyond kata : cliché and its limits
- 6. Consuming enka's imaginary : listening, singing, doing ; Enka's appeal ; Kōenkai and fan clubs ; Karaoke
- 7. Enka as engendered longing : romance, furusato, "Japan" ; Romancing the nation ; Longing for furusato
- "Japan"
- Appendix A. Major record companies that produce and market enka
- Appendix B. Regular mass media enka programs in the Tokyo area, 1992
- Appendix C. Listing of songs in the corpus.