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A History of Popular Culture in Japan
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
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A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and meaning in Japanese history.
E. Taylor Atkins shows how Japan is one of the earliest sites for the development of mass-produced, market-oriented cultural products consumed by urban middle and working classes. The best-known traditional arts and culture of Japan- no theater, monochrome ink painting, court literature, poetry and indigenous music-inhabited a world distinct from that of urban commoners, who fashioned their own expressive forms and laid the groundwork for today's 'gross national cool.' Popular culture was pivotal in the rise of Japanese nationalism, imperialism, militarism, postwar democracy and economic development.
Offering historiographical and analytical frameworks for understanding its subject, A History of Popular Culture in Japan synthesizes the latest scholarship from a variety of disciplines. It is a vital resource for students of Japanese cultural history wishing to gain a deeper understanding of Japan's contributions to global cultural heritage.
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and meaning in Japanese history.
E. Taylor Atkins shows how Japan is one of the earliest sites for the development of mass-produced, market-oriented cultural products consumed by urban middle and working classes. The best-known traditional arts and culture of Japan- no theater, monochrome ink painting, court literature, poetry and indigenous music-inhabited a world distinct from that of urban commoners, who fashioned their own expressive forms and laid the groundwork for today's 'gross national cool.' Popular culture was pivotal in the rise of Japanese nationalism, imperialism, militarism, postwar democracy and economic development.
Offering historiographical and analytical frameworks for understanding its subject, A History of Popular Culture in Japan synthesizes the latest scholarship from a variety of disciplines. It is a vital resource for students of Japanese cultural history wishing to gain a deeper understanding of Japan's contributions to global cultural heritage.
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Information
A
HISTORY
OF
POPULAR
CULTURE
IN JAPAN
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through
the
consumption
of
the
latest
commodities
or
participation
in
the
coolest
activities;
5
a
climate
of
celebrity
worship,
in
which
popular
actors,
writers,
painters,
and
musicians
had
established
fan
bases,
endorsed
products,
consorted
with
warrior
aristocrats,
and
were
objects
of
public
scrutiny
and
gossip
—
all
of
which
belied
their
official
status
as
outcastes
or
hinin
(nonpeople);
6
unprecedented
access
to
information
and
material
items
from
the
outside
world,
which
were
incorporated
in
various
ways
into
cultural
life
and
fostered
a
sense
of
what
might
be
called
a
“protonationalist”
consciousness
among
Japanese.
Similar
trends
of
urbanization,
rising
literacy
rates,
and
mass-produced
commercial
culture
were
visible
in
parts
of
Ming
China,
Europe,
and
to
a
lesser
degree
in
the
Ottoman,
Saffavid,
and
Mughal
empires,
but
it
may
be
that
seventeenth-century
Japan
had
a
more
firmly
established
commercial
culture
industry,
and
a
fully
conceptualized
notion
of
popular
culture
as
we
understand
it
today,
earlier
than
any
other
country
on
earth.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The worst which has been thought and said? Defining popular culture
- Chapter 2 Floating worlds—the birth of popular culture in Japan
- Chapter 3 Delicate dancing—early modern Japan’s culture wars
- Chapter 4 Popular culture as subject and object of Meiji modernization
- Chapter 5 Cultural living—cosmopolitan modernism in imperial Japan
- Chapter 6 Entertaining empire—popular culture as a “technology of imperialism”
- Chapter 7 “Our spirit against their steel”—mobilizing culture for war
- Chapter 8 Democracy, monstrosity, and pensive prosperity—postwar pop
- Chapter 9 Millennial Japan as dream factory
- Afterword Contemplating cool
- Notes
- Index
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