Tears of Longing - Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song

"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."

Info autore

Christine Yano is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Riassunto

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."

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christine R. Yano, Christine Reiko Yano
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2003
• EAN: 9780674012769
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01276-9
• Peso: 431 g
• Illustrazioni: 7 halftones, 8 musical examples, 8 tables
• Serie: Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP)
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Jazz, Japan, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Popular Music