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Unpopular Music: The Politics of Mass Culture in Modern Japan.

机译:不受欢迎的音乐:近代日本的大众文化政治。

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This dissertation sheds light on the ongoing public controversies surrounding the popular songs that began to be produced by new record companies in the late 1920s. For the next three decades, these popular songs drew the attention of scholars, journalists, government officials, and others, all of who understood the songs as manifestations of broader social realities. Debating these songs, in turn, gave critics opportunities not only to intervene in the popular musical culture but also to effect social change. In many cases, this took the form of debates on the effects of mass culture on modern Japanese life. In other instances it led attempts to censor the songs themselves. What ultimately lay at the heart of these controversies and the efforts to regulate popular songs were the predominantly class-based anxieties surrounding the rise of a "vulgar," mass culture that threatened to become dominant within Japan's cultural landscape.;Despite the strident calls against "vulgar" music, however, the controversies surrounding popular songs were less a culture war fought between the lower-class consumers of popular songs and their elite critics than they were a series of confrontations that took place within the ranks of Japan's social, political, and cultural elite. This dissertation focuses on the three decades stretching from the late 1920s to the end of 1950s because they constitute the height of these controversies and also because this was the period which witnessed the emergence of a mass consumer, middle class culture. While mass consumption does not become a lived reality for the majority of Japanese until the 1960s, the decades preceding this were the times during which Japanese elites debated the implications of this historic transformation unfolding around them. Within this context, popular song critique constituted an attempt to shape the nature of the mass consumer society that was to come.
机译:这篇论文揭示了围绕流行歌曲的持续的公众争议,这些流行歌曲是1920年代后期开始由新唱片公司制作的。在接下来的三十年中,这些流行歌曲引起了学者,记者,政府官员和其他人的注意,所有这些人都将这些歌曲理解为更广泛的社会现实的体现。反过来,对这些歌曲进行辩论,不仅给评论家提供了干预流行音乐文化的机会,而且还带来了改变社会的机会。在许多情况下,这种辩论形式是关于大众文化对现代日本人生活的影响的辩论。在其他情况下,它导致尝试审查歌曲本身。这些争议和调节流行歌曲的最终归因于围绕“粗俗”大众文化兴起的主要基于阶级的焦虑,这种大众文化有可能在日本的文化景观中占主导地位。然而,“粗俗”音乐围绕流行歌曲的争议,与其说是在日本的社会,政治,和文化精英。本文着眼于从1920年代末到1950年代末的三个十年,因为它们构成了这些争议的高峰,并且因为这个时期见证了大众消费者,中产阶级文化的出现。虽然大众消费直到1960年代才成为大多数日本人的现实生活,但在此之前的数十年间,日本精英们一直在争论围绕着他们展开的这一历史性转变的含义。在这种情况下,流行歌曲评论构成了试图塑造即将到来的大众消费者社会的本质的尝试。

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  • 作者

    Nagahara, Hiromu.;

  • 作者单位

    Harvard University.;

  • 授予单位 Harvard University.;
  • 学科 History Asia Australia and Oceania.;Asian Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 187 p.
  • 总页数 187
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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