Felicity Jane Greenland
   Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies
   Position   Professor
Date 2020/06/28
Presentation Theme Christine Yano's "Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song"
Conference Traditional Song Forum
Conference Type International
Presentation Type Other
Contribution Type Individual
Venue オンライン
Details Book review and explanation of enka genre to an international association of English language folk song researchers and practitioners. Presentation of Yano’s method of content analysis and extraction of themes in relation to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Folk Song Indexing Project of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and the Roud Index of British and American folk song. (Short talk in 'Book Club' meeting segment.)