Cultural commodities in Japanese rural revitalization [electronic resource] : Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen / by Anthony S. Rausch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rausch, Anthony, 1960-

Series:

Social sciences in Asia ; v. 28.

Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Japan--Case studies.

Rural development.

Cultural industries--Japan--Case studies.

Cultural industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fate of local places increasingly rests on their capability to capitalize on their highly specific local cultural resources. Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen examines the dynamics of this reality for the Tsugaru District of the Aomori Prefecture, Japan, and its two dominant cultural commodities, a lacquerware and a musical performance. Organized on the basis of policy, production and consumption, the research points to historical trajectory and a combinative conceptual-operational space as the means of identifying cultural and economic potential for a cultural commodity. This analytical approach provides both for assessing the local consciousness and identifying informed policy and industry management for the commodity, making it possible to realize its potential in local revitaliszation.

Contents:

The future of local places

The Tsugaru district of Aomori prefecture

Culture in revitalization : policy, production, and consumption

Tsugaru revitalization policy and cultural commodities

The production of Tsugaru cultural commodities

Cultural commodities and local revitalization.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95129-7

9786612951299

90-474-4426-4

OCLC:

701095624

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004179967.i-232 DOI