Homesick blues : politics, protest, and musical storytelling in modern Japan /
Author / Creator: | Aalgaard, Scott W., author. |
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Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2023] |
Description: | 1 online resource ( x, 256 pages) : illustrations. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific. |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13289131 |
Summary: | 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 author Scott Aalgaard calls "musical storytelling." At its core, musical storytelling is a political practice, presenting 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 and unexpected ways that everyday life has been imagined and critiqued across disparate moments in modern Japanese history. Aalgaard pushes beyond the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s, challenging well-established characterizations of these years as fleeting moments when critical politics in Japan reached an apex, and an end. Instead, he asserts that musical storytelling is robust and ongoing, and proposes more nuanced and comprehensive understandings of critical political and cultural engagement in modern Japan. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( x, 256 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780824896645 0824896645 9780824896669 0824896661 9780824896652 0824896653 9780824895587 |