Tears of Longing : Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
by Yano, Christine R.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-01
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary
Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka's primary audience, this music--of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers--evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of "Japaneseness." Overlooked in this emotional invocation of the past, however, are the powerful commercial forces that, since the 1970s, have shaped the consumption of enka and its version of national identity. Informed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes "Japan."
Table of Contents
| List of Tables | ix | ||||
| List of Figures | ix | ||||
| List of Music Examples | x | ||||
| Prologue | 1 | (12) | |||
| Chapter 1 The Cultural Logic of Enka 's Imaginary | 13 | (15) | |||
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14 | (3) | |||
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17 | (7) | |||
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24 | (4) | |||
| Chapter 2 Inventing Enka: Definitions, Genres, Pasts | 28 | (17) | |||
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29 | (2) | |||
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31 | (2) | |||
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33 | (2) | |||
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35 | (7) | |||
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42 | (3) | |||
| Chapter 3 Producing Enka: Lessons in Perseverance | 45 | (32) | |||
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46 | (8) | |||
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54 | (19) | |||
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73 | (4) | |||
| Chapter 4 Enka on Stage: Patterning the Practices of Intimacy | 77 | (13) | |||
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78 | (4) | |||
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82 | (8) | |||
| Chapter 5 Clichés of Excess: Words, Music, Bodies, and Beyond | 90 | (34) | |||
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92 | (11) | |||
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103 | (11) | |||
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114 | (8) | |||
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122 | (2) | |||
| Chapter 6 Consuming Enka's Imaginary: Listening, Singing, Doing | 124 | (24) | |||
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125 | (2) | |||
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127 | (14) | |||
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141 | (7) | |||
| Chapter 7 Enka as Engendered Longing: Romance, Furusato, "Japan" | 148 | (33) | |||
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149 | (19) | |||
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168 | (10) | |||
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178 | (3) | |||
| Epilogue | 181 | (6) | |||
| Appendix A: Major Record Companies That Produce and Market Enka | 187 | (4) | |||
| Appendix B: Regular Mass Media Enka Programs in the Tokyo Area, 1992 | 191 | (2) | |||
| Appendix C: Listing of Songs in the Corpus | 193 | (12) | |||
| Notes | 205 | (22) | |||
| References | 227 | (20) | |||
| Index | 247 |
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