Music as Heritage and Tourism Resource in Japan
Edited by Philip Seaton
Proposed Schedule:
December 2023: Decide project members and provisional titles
Spring 2024: Received titles and abstracts from everyone. Receive 2-3 sample chapters. Send proposal to the publisher: “Routledge Studies in Popular Music” series
Summer 2024: Sign contract
Autumn 2024: Online meeting(s) to discuss chapters and book progress
December 2024: Chapter submission deadlines (all authors)
Spring 2025: Submit the draft to the publisher.
Late 2025 or early 2026: Publication!
To avoid “leakage” that might prevent publication, I am only sharing drafts by email. But, here is the contributor’s list:
Introduction
PHILIP SEATON
PART 1: The Theoretical and Historical Context
1 Music, Heritage, Tourism: A Theoretical Framework PHILIP SEATON
2 The Music Life Cycle: Patterns of Music, Heritage, and Tourism Over Time PHILIP SEATON
3 Music in Japan Since the Edo Period MARGARET MEHL
PART 2: Music Past and Present
4 Music in Shinto Spaces and Historical Imaginaries: From Kagura to Anime Songs OLGA PRZYBYLSKA
5 Voices of Amami: the Falsetto Techniques of Minyō in Contemporary Pop Music NOBUYUKI HARADA
6 Passing on Ainu Heritage through Playing the Mukkuri KYUNGJAE JANG
7 Osaka Jazz in the 1930s YUSUKE WAJIMA
8 Popular Music as lieu de mémoire: The Morning Drama Boogie Woogie ELISABETH SCHERER and TIMO THELEN (mats from Kagawa)
PART 3: Musicians and Creators
8 Music Tourism in Shonan TOSHIYUKI MASUBUCHI
9 The Overseas Tours of Scandal NOBUYUKI HARADA
10 Orchestras as Promoters of Regional Heritage and Tourism PHILIP SEATON
11 Hiroshima/War in Music (TBC) YUMI NOTOHARA
12 SDF Bands (title TBC) RYO KOARAI and TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA
PART 4: Travelling Fans
13 Traveling with Yuming: the 80s Youth Culture and Love Songs of Yumi (Arai) Matsutoya AKIKO SUGAWA-SHIMADA
14 Multi-ethnic Musical Imagination: The Music Festa in Taiwan TING WANG
15 The imagination of Japan through music at pop culture events in Indonesia HIMAWAN PRATAMA
16 From Japan to Sweden: Tourism inspired by the works of rock band Yorushika ALEKSANDRA JAWOROWICZ-ZIMNY
17 Journeys to the Sound- and Musicscapes of Switzerland: Sound collection by the creators and sound pilgrimage by the fans of Heidi TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA
PART 5: Conclusions
17 Conclusions PHILIP SEATON