A Life Adrift - Soeda Azembo, Popular Song, and Modern Mass Culture in Japan - Hardback - 2008

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.
Year of publication: 2008
Pagination: 336 pages, 22 black & white halftones
Format: Hardback
Serie: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series