The Chrysanthemum And The Song
Subtitle: Music, Memory, And Identity In The South American Japanese Diaspora (New World Diasporas)
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: November 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780813027647
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Theory of music & musicology; South America; Japanese; Music/Songbooks; Music; Latin America; Ethnic Studies - General; Ethnomusicology; History and criticism
Description: "Olsen provides a history of Nikkei emigration and music from the Japanese homeland, comments on the contributions and the roles of song contests and karaoke in shaping their new social life and identity, and discusses Nikkei aesthetic values. His research sources include interviews, memoirs of immigrants and their children, newspaper accounts of Nikkei musical experiences and thoughts, and observations of musical events. Olsen also documents and interprets his own performances with and for the Nikkei on the Japanese shakuhachi flute." "Covering five generations of Nikkei over more than a century, this ethnomusicological investigation makes an original contribution to Japanese diaspora studies. It will be of special interest to scholars of the sociology of immigrant cultures and identity formation, Asian and Latin American studies, and ethnomusicology. It offers a model of innovative theoretical and experimental ways to learn about subcultures in diaspora."--BOOK JACKET.