A life adrift [ Soeda Azembo popular song, and modern mass culture in Japan

A memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944). It 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

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Soeda, Azenbo , 1872-1944 (Author), Lewis, Michael , 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London;New York : Routledge , c2009
Series:Routledge contemporary Japan series
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 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