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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’.

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Homesick Blues is, as the subtitle signals, a study of musical storytelling, a pioneering work that both theorizes and documents the manner in which a diverse range of music and song is used in a wide variety of contexts to make sense, through the act of narration, of one's place in the world and moment in history. The research evinces the very best of academia's current push for interdisciplinarity." - James Dorsey, Wesleyan University

Homesick Blues

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    A Hardback by Scott W. Aalgaard

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      Publisher UNIV OF HAWAII PR
      Published 11/30/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780824895587
      978-0824895587
      ISBN-10 0824895584

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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’.

      Trade Review
      Homesick Blues is, as the subtitle signals, a study of musical storytelling, a pioneering work that both theorizes and documents the manner in which a diverse range of music and song is used in a wide variety of contexts to make sense, through the act of narration, of one's place in the world and moment in history. The research evinces the very best of academia's current push for interdisciplinarity." - James Dorsey, Wesleyan University

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