Katyusha's Song Explained
,[1] or "Song of Katyusha",[2] is a Japanese song which was highly popular in early-20th century Japan. It was composed in the major pentatonic scale by Shinpei Nakayama[3] with lyrics by .[4] The song was sung by Sumako Matsui in a dramatization of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection,[5] first put on stage in the theatre, Tokyo in 1914.[6] [7]
The same year the Nippon Kinetophone company released a kinetophone record of Matsui Sumako's singing with the same title.[8]
Influences
Katyusha's song became a national hit in Japan from 1913 onwards,[9] selling 27,000 copies[10] and was taken on by street corner musicians throughout Japan. It is considered by some music historians as the first example of modern Japanese popular music.[11]
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Notes and References
- Book: Patrick M. Patterson. Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887–1952. 15 October 2018. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-1-4985-5036-9. 25–.
- Book: Yukiko Koshiro. Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. 10 May 2013. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-6775-2. 62–.
- Book: Shunsuke Tsurumi. A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980. 18 October 2010. Routledge. 978-1-136-91766-0. 105–.
- http://www.kodomo.go.jp/gallery/KODOMO_WEB/authors/nakayama_e.html Nakayama Shinpei
- Book: Hiromu Nagahara. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. 10 April 2017. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-97169-1. 30–.
- Book: Toru Mitsui. Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music. 17 July 2014. Routledge. 978-1-135-95534-2. 5–.
- Book: Anthony V. Liman. Ibuse Masuji: A Century Remembered. 2008. Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. 978-80-246-1452-6.
- Junichiro Tanaka, , vol. 1: The Age of Motion Pictures,, Chuokoron-Shinsha, 1968, pp.218-223.
- Book: Japan on Stage: Japanese Concepts of Beauty As Shown in the Traditional Theatre. 1990. 3A Corporation. 978-4-906224-62-3.
- Book: The Journal of Japanese Studies. 2003. Society for Japanese Studies.
- http://web-japan.org/factsheet/pdf/MUSIC.pdf "Music - Reflection of traditions from the East and West"
