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After Identity: Three Essays on the Musicality of Life This volume is a collection of three peer-reviewed essays which have been organically expanded from their original versions published between 2014 and 2017. Additionally, they have been re-written in a more accessible language for a broader readership than the limited academic community. What the phenomena described in this booklet have in common is the fact that they are all media-related appearances in the spectrum of popular culture in contemporary Japan, while possessing music as their secondary tool: Takarazuka Revue is primarily a theatrical genre, anime is fundamentally a visual medium, Murakami Haruki publishes (mainly) literary works. Moreover, an essential focus is placed on music and its function to retrieve mor …
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