Searching for Wagner in Japan
Series: New Cultural History of Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 July 2026
- ISBN 9780197620410
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 237x165x23 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 91 700
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Short description:
Searching for Wagner in Japan presents a new way of understanding Wagnerism through the reception of the composer's music and prose in East Asia. The book offers a compelling examination of how Japanese Wagnerism engaged with global socio-political agendas throughout the twentieth century.
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In 1868 Japan opened its borders to the outside world and began a rapid modernization process which included importing European musical instruments, compositional practices, and repertoire. The operas and prose of Richard Wagner trickled into Japan during this time and, as in other parts of the world, agents in Japan manipulated the composer's prose and musical works to suit ideologies ranging from the fascist to the frivolous.
Through the lens of global history, Japanese cultural studies, and musicology, this book presents a new way of understanding Wagnerism as it filtered through modern Japanese culture. Wagnerism is entangled in modernity, and in Japan these entanglements surfaced not only on the operatic stage, but also in sheet music, film, and popular literature. Author Brooke McCorkle Okazaki documents Wagner's opera premieres and utilizes mass media--such as film, magazines, and comics--to explore the interplay of modernity and Wagnerism in Japan. Okazaki first situates the discussion in the context of global historical methodologies, demonstrating how the story of Wagner's reception in Japan models a non-Eurocentric approach to one of musicology's most canonical composers. She then presents a series of case studies that consider how Wagnerism shaped individuals and institutions in Japan beginning from the late nineteenth century and to the present.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Japanese Wagnerism, Global Musicology
Wagnerism and Dreams of Nationhood in Modern Japan
Wagnerism and Fascinating Frivolity
Wagnerism and Early Japanese Opera: Yamada Kōsaku's The Fallen Celestial Maiden
Wagner and Technologies of Empire
Twilight of an Empire: Staging Wagner in Wartime Tokyo
Occupying Wagner
A Shōjo's Fantasy: Wagner and Girls' Culture in 1950s Japan
Tristan's Wounds, Mishima's Body
Takarazuka, Tristan, and Troubling Gender
J-Wagner: Wagner and Manga in Millennial Japan
Wagner, Anime, and Environmental Commentary: Studio Ghibli's Ponyo (2008)
Conclusion: Wagner Fans, Assemble
