Tears of longing : nostalgia and the nation in Japanese popular song / Christine R. Yano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yano, Christine Reiko.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 206.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enka--History and criticism.

Enka.

Popular music--Japan--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

Other Title:

Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2002.

Summary:

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--evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of "Japaneseness." Overlooked in this emotional invocation of the past, however, are the powerful commercial forces that, since the 1970s, have shaped the consumption of enka and its version of national identity. Informed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes "Japan.".

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Christine R. Yano

Prologue / Christine R. Yano

The Cultural Logic of Enka's Imaginary / Christine R. Yano

Inventing Enka Definitions, Genres, Pasts / Christine R. Yano

Producing Enka / Christine R. Yano

Enka on Stage / Christine R. Yano

Clichés of Excess / Christine R. Yano

Consuming Enka's Imaginary / Christine R. Yano

Enka as Engendered Longing / Christine R. Yano

Epilogue / Christine R. Yano

Major Record Companies That Produce and Market Enka / Christine R. Yano

Regular Mass Media Enka Programs in the Tokyo Area, 1992 / Christine R. Yano

Listing of Songs in the Corpus / Christine R. Yano

Notes / Christine R. Yano

References / Christine R. Yano

Index / Christine R. Yano

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Christine R. Yano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-245) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9781684173624

1684173620

OCLC:

1001542051

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173624 DOI