Creating Enka - The 'Soul of Japan' in the Postwar Era - Wajime Yusuke Clinton Williams of Bluebeard

of Bluebeard

these young artists

Walter Serner was a brilliant observer of society — his activities in the 1920s have been called "a dance on the rim of a volcano

published November 2022

a little-known and short-lived group

Creating Enka - The 'Soul of Japan' in the Postwar Era - Wajime Yusuke Clinton Williams of BluebeardCreating Enka: The "Soul of Japan" in the Postwar Era by Wajime Yusuke ISBN 9784990863630 a 288 page paperback, 5. 88 x 8. 25 inches, published by Public Bath Press (Japan, though their books are in English) *** When this prize winning (Suntory Best Non fiction 2010) history of the music known as Enka, one of the dominant forms of postwar popular music, appeared, it rearranged everyone's understanding of the history of postwar pop. Love it or hate it,