- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Music Examples
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Cultural Logic of Enkas Imaginary
- Collective Remembering, Collective Forgetting
- Localizing the National Nationalizing the Local
- Patterning Forms Through Kata
- Chapter 2: Inventing Enka: Definitions, Genres, Pasts
- Defining “Enka”
- Metji Era (1868–1912)
- Taishō Era (1912–1926)
- Showa Era (1926–l1989)
- Heisei Era (1989–present)
- Chapter 3: Producing Enka: Lessons in Perseverance
- The Enka Industry: Metaphors for the Nation
- The Making of a Singer: Imaging the Imaginary
- The Making of a Hit Song
- Chapter 4: Enka on Stage: Patterning the Practices of Intimacy
- Live Performances Creating a Display of Patterned Intimacy
- Mediated Performances: Broadcasting Intimacy
- Chapter 5: Clichés of Excess: Words, Music, Bodies, and Beyond
- Textual Kata: A Modern Musical Recasting of Waka
- Musical Kata: Aural Processes of the Past
- Bodily Kata: Gendered Display
- Beyond Kata: Cliché and Its Limits
- Chapter 6: Consuming Enkas Imaginary: Listening, Singing, Doing
- Enkas Appeal
- Kōenkai and Fan Clubs
- Karaoke
- Chapter 7: Enka as Engendered Longing: Romance, Furusato, “Japan”
- Romancing the Nation
- Longing for Furusato
- “Japan”
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS


Harvard East Asian Monographs 206
Tears of Longing
Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
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$24.95 • £21.95 • €22.95
ISBN 9780674012769
Publication Date: 09/01/2003
280 pages
7 halftones, 8 musical examples, 8 tables
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