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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• The worst which has been thought and said? : Defining popular culture
• Floating worlds : the birth of popular culture in Japan
• Delicate dancing : early modern Japan's culture wars
• Popular culture as subject and object of Meiji modernization
• Cultural living : cosmopolitan modernism in imperial Japan
• Entertaining empire : popular culture as a "technology of imperialism"
• "Our spirit against their steel" : mobilizing culture for war
• Democracy, monstrosity, and pensive prosperity : postwar pop
• Millennial Japan as dream factory
• Afterword : Contemplating cool.

Author/Creator:

Atkins, E. Taylor (Everett Taylor), 1967- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A history of popular culture in Japan: from the seventeenth century to the present [by Atkins, E.T.]

Related Series:

Cultural histories series

Subjects:

Popular culture — Japan — History

Popular culture — Political aspects — Japan — History

Japan — Civilization

Japan — Intellectual life

Japan — Social life and customs

Popular culture

Popular culture — Political aspects

Civilization

Intellectual life

Manners and customs

Japan

Genres:

History

General Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS821 .A755 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781474258579
1474258573
9781350231139
9781350195929 (paperback) [Invalid]
9781350195936 (hardback) [Invalid]
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Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5040/9781350231139
[Unknown Type]: 184921
[Unknown Type]: 184927
[Unknown Type]: 224229

OCLC Numbers:

1004974247

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: CDCBCH9781474258579