Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond All the Pronouns to the analysis of responses

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This timely work consists of chapters written from multiple perspectives and disciplines

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Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond All the Pronouns to the analysis of responsesThis anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. Modernity as experienced in this locale, with its particular historical, geographic and demographic character, and its established traditions of music and performance, gave rise to configurations of the new, the traditional and the hybrid that were distinct from their Tokyo counterparts. The Taisho and early Showa periods, from 1912 to the early