Tears of Longing Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song

Name: Tears of Longing Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
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ISBN: 9780674012769

ISBN-10: 0674012763

ISBN-13: 9780674012769

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Authors: Christine R. Yano

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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…

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Tables


List of Figures


List of Music Examples


Prologue



The Cultural Logic of Enkas Imaginary


Collective Remembering, Collective Forgetting


Localizing the National Nationalizing the Local


Patterning Forms Through Kata



Inventing Enka: Definitions, Genres, Pasts


Defining "Enka"


Metji Era (1868-1912)


Taisho Era (1912-1926)


Showa Era (1926-l1989)


Heisei Era (1989-present)



Producing Enka: Lessons in Perseverance


The Enka Industry: Metaphors for the Nation


The Making of a Singer: Imaging the Imaginary


The Making of a Hit Song



Enka on Stage: Patterning the Practices of Intimacy


Live Performances Creating a Display of Patterned Intimacy


Mediated Performances: Broadcasting Intimacy


Chapter Clichï¿½s of Excess: Words, Music, Bodies, and Beyond


Textual Kata: A Modern Musical Recasting of Waka


Musical Kata: Aural Processes of the Past


Bodily Kata: Gendered Display


Beyond Kata: Clichï¿½ and Its Limits



Consuming Enkas Imaginary: Listening, Singing, Doing


Enkas Appeal


Koenkai and Fan Clubs


Karaoke



Enka as Engendered Longing: Romance, Furusato, "Japan"


Romancing the Nation


Longing for Furusato


"Japan"


Epilogue



Major Record Companies That Produce and Market Enka



Regular Mass Media Enka Programs in the Tokyo Area, 1992



Listing of Songs in the Corpus


Notes


References


Index