A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780710313379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 336 str.

Peter Garside

Opis

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Michael Lewis is Professor of History at Michigan State University.