Homesick Blues : : Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan / / Scott W. Aalgaard.
Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that the book calls "musical storytelling." At its core, musical storytelling is a political practice, presenting p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Liner Notes
- TRACK 1: "Friendship Through Music": Musical Storytelling and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
- TRACK 2: Takada Wataru, Kansai Folk, and the Tactical Conjuring of the Everyday
- TRACK 3: A Most Unusual "Lesson": Kagawa Ryō, Anti-Folk, and "Japan's One More Time"
- TRACK 4: Singing My Song: Karaoke Politics on the Eve of Japan's Dark Spring
- TRACK 5: Winds out of the South: Kagoshima, Crisis, and the Critical Potentials of a "Provincialized Japan"
- Overture
- References
- Discography
- Index