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__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 the book calls “musical storytelling.” At its core, musical storytelling is a political practice, presenting potent—if ambiguous—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, sometimes unexpected ways that everyday life has been imagined and critiqued across disparate moments in modern Japanese history. The author pushes beyond the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s, challenging well-established characterization of these years as fleeting moments when critical politics in Japan—especially in music—reached an apex, and an end. Instead, Aalgaard asserts that musical storytelling is robust and ongoing, a

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Author

Scott W. Aalgaard

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824896645

Category

nonfiction