The chrysanthemum and the song [electronic resource] : music, memory, and identity in the South American Japanese diaspora / by Dale A. Olsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Dale A. (Dale Alan)

Series:

New World diasporas series.

New World diasporas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--South America--Music--History and criticism.

Japanese.

Music--South America--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Music helps form and nurture ethnic identity for large populations of people of Japanese descent in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Paraguay. In a story never before told, Dale Olsen offers a musical history and ethnography of this vibrant Asian diaspora, the largest population of overseas Japanese in the world and one of the most successful subcultures in South America.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations ix; List of Tables xii; List of Audio Examples xiii; Foreword xvii; Acknowledgments xxi; Orthography xxvii; 1. Introduction: Music Making, Memory, and Dimensions of Ethnicity 1; 2. Emigration and Music from the Japanese Homelands 20; 3. Peru 38; 4. Brazil 85; 5. Argentina 157; 6. Paraguay 198; 7. Bolivia 210; 8. Song Contests: Musical Intersections and the Shaping of JapaneseIdentity 245; 9. Karaoke: Mediated Music and Singing, Social Functions, and Identity 254; 10. Social Variables of Identity through Music: Qualitative and QuantitativeApproaches 267

11. Conclusion: Music Making and Cultural Survival 295Notes 303; Appendixes 309; Glossary 315; Bibliography 325; Index 335

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3585-6

OCLC:

670429503