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

by Michael L. Lewis and Azenb Soeda

Book Overview

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. Azembo created enka songs sung by tenant farmers in rural hinterlands and factory hands in Tokyo and Osaka. Although his work is still largely unknown outside Japan, his poems and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710313373
• ISBN13: 9780710313379
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"