Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931-1945
According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that...
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| Zusammenfassung: | According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that, up to the very end of the Pacific War, kabuki was a living theater and, as an institution, an active participant in contemporary events, rising and falling in consonance with Japan’s imperial adventures.Drawing extensively from Japanese sources—books, newspapers, magazines, war reports, speeches, scripts, and diaries—Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan’s Fifteen-Year Sacred War. He reveals, for example, that kabuki stars raised funds to buy fighter and bomber aircraft for the imperial forces and that pro-ducers arranged large-scale tours for kabuki troupes to entertain soldiers stationed in Manchuria, China, and Korea. Kabuki playwrights contributed no less than 160 new plays that dramatized frontline battles or rewrote history to propagate imperial ideology. Abridged by censors, molded by the Bureau of Information, and partially incorporated into the League of Touring Theaters, kabuki reached new audiences as it expanded along with the new Japanese empire. By the end of the war, however, it had fallen from government favor and in 1944–1946 it nearly expired when Japanese government decrees banished leading kabuki companies to minor urban theaters and the countryside. Kabuki’s Forgotten War includes more than a hundred illustrations, many of which have never been published in an English-language work. It is nothing less than a com-plete revision of kabuki’s recent history and as such goes beyond correcting a significant misconception. This new study remedies a historical absence that has distorted our understanding of Japan’s imperial enterprise and its aftermath |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource 130 illus |
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| spelling | Brandon, James R. aut Kabuki's Forgotten War 1931-1945 James R. Brandon Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2008] © 2008 1 online resource 130 illus txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018) According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that, up to the very end of the Pacific War, kabuki was a living theater and, as an institution, an active participant in contemporary events, rising and falling in consonance with Japan’s imperial adventures.Drawing extensively from Japanese sources—books, newspapers, magazines, war reports, speeches, scripts, and diaries—Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan’s Fifteen-Year Sacred War. He reveals, for example, that kabuki stars raised funds to buy fighter and bomber aircraft for the imperial forces and that pro-ducers arranged large-scale tours for kabuki troupes to entertain soldiers stationed in Manchuria, China, and Korea. Kabuki playwrights contributed no less than 160 new plays that dramatized frontline battles or rewrote history to propagate imperial ideology. Abridged by censors, molded by the Bureau of Information, and partially incorporated into the League of Touring Theaters, kabuki reached new audiences as it expanded along with the new Japanese empire. By the end of the war, however, it had fallen from government favor and in 1944–1946 it nearly expired when Japanese government decrees banished leading kabuki companies to minor urban theaters and the countryside. Kabuki’s Forgotten War includes more than a hundred illustrations, many of which have never been published in an English-language work. It is nothing less than a com-plete revision of kabuki’s recent history and as such goes beyond correcting a significant misconception. This new study remedies a historical absence that has distorted our understanding of Japan’s imperial enterprise and its aftermath In English Geschichte 1931-1947 gnd rswk-swf Kabuki History 20th century War and theater Japan History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Theater and the war Zweiter Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079167-1 gnd rswk-swf Kabuki (DE-588)4138350-3 gnd rswk-swf Theater (DE-588)4059702-7 gnd rswk-swf Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 gnd rswk-swf Japan (DE-588)4028495-5 g Theater (DE-588)4059702-7 s Zweiter Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079167-1 s Geschichte 1931-1947 z 1\p DE-604 Kabuki (DE-588)4138350-3 s 2\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824863210 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Kabuki's Forgotten War 1931-1945 |
| title_auth | Kabuki's Forgotten War 1931-1945 |
| title_exact_search | Kabuki's Forgotten War 1931-1945 |
| title_full | Kabuki's Forgotten War 1931-1945 James R. Brandon |
| title_fullStr | Kabuki's Forgotten War 1931-1945 James R. Brandon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Kabuki's Forgotten War 1931-1945 James R. Brandon |
| title_short | Kabuki's Forgotten War |
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| title_sub | 1931-1945 |
| topic | Kabuki History 20th century War and theater Japan History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Theater and the war Zweiter Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079167-1 gnd Kabuki (DE-588)4138350-3 gnd Theater (DE-588)4059702-7 gnd |
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