Tears of Longing
Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100674008456
- ISBN-139780674008458
- Goodreads1191694
- Library of Congress Control Number2001039594
- OCLC Control Number47716394
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780674008458
- Open LibraryOL9426271M
Classifications
- LCCML3501 .Y3 2002
- LCCML3501.Y3 2002
Description
"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.""--BOOK JACKET.
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