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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London;New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| 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