A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song, and Modern Mass Culture in Japan (Kegan Paul Japan Library) (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

by Michael Lewis (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $151.96

  A memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944). It 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.