Life Adrift - Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

Informationen zum Autor Michael Lewis is Professor of History at Michigan State University. Klappentext A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan's first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Zusammenfassung A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. My Early Years 2. The Period of Soshi Politics and Political Songs 3. The Eastern Moral Reform Group 4. Before and After the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) 5. Enka, A New Style 6. Tasiho: an Abbreviated Record 7. Spiritual Life 8. A Pilgrim’s Account

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• Authors: Soeda Azembo, Soeda Lewis Azembo, Soeda Lewis (Translator) Azembo, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis (Translator), Michael (Michigan State University Lewis (Translator), Azembo Soeda, Azembo Lewis Soeda, SOEDA AZEMBO
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2010
• EAN: 9780415592161
• ISBN: 978-0-415-59216-1
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Asien, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein