Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen: 28 (Social Sciences in Asia, 28) - Softcover

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Rausch, Anthony

 
9789004179967: Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen: 28 (Social Sciences in Asia, 28)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9004179968 ISBN 13: 9789004179967
Publisher: Brill, 2010

Synopsis

The fate of local places increasingly rests on their capability to capitalize on their highly specific local cultural resources. Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen examines the dynamics of this reality for the Tsugaru District of the Aomori Prefecture, Japan, and its two dominant cultural commodities, a lacquerware and a musical performance. Organized on the basis of policy, production and consumption, the research points to historical trajectory and a combinative conceptual-operational space as the means of identifying cultural and economic potential for a cultural commodity. This analytical approach provides both for assessing the local consciousness and identifying informed policy and industry management for the commodity, making it possible to realize its potential in local revitaliszation.

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About the Author

Anthony S. Rausch, Ph.D. (2007) Monash University, is Associate Professor at Hirosaki University, Japan. He has authored A Year with the Local Newspaper and co-authored The Birth of Tsugaru Shamisen Music and Tsugaru: Regional Identity on Japan’s Northern Periphery.

From the Back Cover

The fate of local places increasingly rests on their capability to capitalize on their highly specific local cultural resources. "Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen" examines the dynamics of this reality for the Tsugaru District of the Aomori Prefecture, Japan, and its two dominant cultural commodities, a lacquerware and a musical performance. Organized on teh basis of policy, production and consumption, the research points to historical trajectory and a combinative conceptual-operational space as the means of identifying cultural and economic potential for a cultural commodity. This analytical approach provides both for assessing the local consciousness and identifying informed policy and industry management for the commodity, making it possible to realize its potential in local revitaliszation.

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004179968
ISBN 13 
9789004179967
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
244