Homesick blues politics, protest, and pusical storytelling in modern Japan
Homesick blues: politics, protest, and pusical storytelling in modern Japan

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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1. Verfasser: Aalgaard, Scott W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1948-2018
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology
Narrative in music
Popular music > Political aspects > Japan
Popular music > Japan > History and criticism
Musik
Alltag > Motiv
Japan
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Zusammenfassung: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 potent-if ambiguous-world-producing potentials as social actors generate and share stories of themselves and others in ways that intersect with and inform social and political life. Sometimes, musical storytelling is used by powerful entities to reinforce dominant geopolitical, cultural, or economic visions. More often, it is deployed as a means of interfering in or redirecting those visions. In all cases, attending to musical storytelling helps reveal the complex, sometimes unexpected ways that everyday life has been imagined and critiqued across disparate moments in modern Japanese history.
The author pushes beyond the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s, challenging well-established characterization of these years as fleeting moments when critical politics in Japan-especially in music-reached an apex, and an end. Instead, Aalgaard asserts that musical storytelling is robust and ongoing, and proposes more nuanced and comprehensive understandings of critical political and cultural engagement in modern Japan.Homesick Blues is comprised of five chapters, each of which addresses specific instances of musical storytelling in the contexts of their own political, economic, and social histories.
From postwar jazz to contemporary rock, from 1960s "anti-war folk" to Japanese pops (enka) and the "girls' rock" of the 1980s, the book explores the political uses of music, reassesses so-called "protest music," and grapples with the complex political-ness of artists themselves, many of whom have continued to interrogate conditions of everyday life in Japan well into the contemporary moment. Homesick Blues assembles a diverse ensemble of voices, some of whom are now appearing in English-language scholarship for the very first time, including industry stakeholders, rock stars, fans, newscasters, Kyoto-based folk singers, jazz singers, karaoke enthusiasts and even US military personnel. An equally diverse selection of scholarship and methodology, from ethnomusicology to literary studies, from philosophy to history, creates a richly interdisciplinary and accessible analysis of musical modes of politics
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten) 3 b&w Illustrationen
ISBN:9780824896645
DOI:10.1515/9780824896645

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