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Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan Tokita Alison This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. The Taisho and early Showa…
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Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan Tokita Alison
This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. The Taisho and early Showa periods, from 1912 to the early 1940s, saw profound changes in Japanese musical life. Modernity as experienced in this locale, with its particular historical, geographic and demographic character, and its established traditions of music and performance, gave rise to configurations of the new, the traditional and the hybrid that were distinct from their Tokyo counterparts.
The new bourgeoisie saw Western music, particularly the piano and its repertoire, as the symbol of a desirable and increasingly affordable modernity. Consumption of both traditional Japanese and Western music was transformed as public concert performances, music journalism, and music marketing permeated daily life. Orchestras and opera troupes were established, which in turn created a
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