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"Resonating Across Oceanic Currents" Special Edition Editorial (2024)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y., & Kasai, A. (2024). "Resonating Across Oceanic Currents" Special Edition Editorial. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10(1), 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00121_2

Preoccupied with the historical contradictions of seawater as manifested in the early to mid-twentieth century popular music history surrounding Japan, the Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Resonating Across Oceanic Currents: Maritime Histories of... Read More about "Resonating Across Oceanic Currents" Special Edition Editorial.

Broken Promises and Transoceanic Fragments: Japanese Tango Musicians in Manchuria, 1935-1946 (2024)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y. (2024). Broken Promises and Transoceanic Fragments: Japanese Tango Musicians in Manchuria, 1935-1946. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10(1), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00122_1

This article examines the personal experiences and memories of Japanese tango musicians in Manchuria in the years leading up to and immediately after the Second World War, revealing the tensions between migration and movement, on the one hand, and me... Read More about Broken Promises and Transoceanic Fragments: Japanese Tango Musicians in Manchuria, 1935-1946.

'Resonating across Oceanic Currents': Special edition editorial (2024)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y., & Kasai, A. (2024). 'Resonating across Oceanic Currents': Special edition editorial. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 10(1), 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00121_2

Preoccupied with the historical contradictions of seawater as manifested in the early to mid-twentieth century popular music history surrounding Japan, the Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Resonating Across Oceanic Currents: Maritime Histories of... Read More about 'Resonating across Oceanic Currents': Special edition editorial.

Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2024)
Book Chapter
Asaba, Y. (2024). Tango, Emotion, and Transculturality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. In K. Wendland, & K. Link (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Tango (314-330). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974936.019

20 世紀日本におけるタンゴの受容と「本場」意識の形成 ―内面化されたモダニティという視点からの一考察 (2020)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y. (2020). 20 世紀日本におけるタンゴの受容と「本場」意識の形成 ―内面化されたモダニティという視点からの一考察. Popyurā ongaku kenkyū = ポピュラー音楽研究 = Popular Music Studies, 24, 3-15. https://doi.org/10.11385/jaspmpms.24.0_3

'Folds of the heart': performing life experience, emotion and empathy in Japanese tango music culture (2019)
Journal Article
Asaba, Y. (2019). 'Folds of the heart': performing life experience, emotion and empathy in Japanese tango music culture. Ethnomusicology Forum, 28(1), 45-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2019.1587714

In the Argentine tango music culture of Japan, to have undergone many life experiences is considered critical in order to perform the powerful emotions of tango. Narratives by Japanese tango musicians stress ‘each musician’s feelings’ as crucial in s... Read More about 'Folds of the heart': performing life experience, emotion and empathy in Japanese tango music culture.