Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan
by
Soeda Azembo, Michael Lewis (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
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...