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IN PLACE OVER TIME:
A SPATIAL APPROACH TO POPULAR CULTURE AND IDENTITY FORMATION
THROUGH THE DANJIRI FESTIVAL OF KISHIWADA CITY, 1745-1928
by
Dylan Christopher Ellefson
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
August 2011
Copyright 2011 Dylan Christopher Ellefson
Object Description
| Title | In place over time: a spatial approach to popular culture and identity formation through the Danjiri Festival of Kishiwada City, 1745-1928 |
| Author | Ellefson, Dylan Christopher |
| Author email | ellefson@usc.edu;dylellefson@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-05-06 |
| Date submitted | 2011-07-19 |
| Date approved | 2011-07-19 |
| Restricted until | 2011-07-19 |
| Date published | 2011-07-19 |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Berger, Gordon M. Ethington, Philip J. Lippit, Akira Mizuta Kurashige, Lon |
| Abstract | The Danjiri Festival originated in the mid-eighteenth century in the former castle town of Kishiwada. This southern Osaka festival of national notoreity is named after the wooden floats known as danjiri that have been paraded by the neighborhoods of the castle town since its inception. These neighborhoods still form the basis of the festival, which remains a lively public forum for expressing local identity through an intense neighborhood-based competition. The festival has also been a vehicle for expressing broader collective identities such as loyalty to the local lord (daimyo) in the early modern period and, more recently, identification with the emperor and nation. Moreover, today the festival serves as a common representation of traditional culture in the national media. Thus the Danjiri Festival offers a compelling case of the power of place to create and sustain culture while also expressing a broad range of identities from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Furthermore, a place-based approach to the festival allows one to reassess the conventional scholarly wisdom that regards tradition in modern Japan as inherently anachronistic, fetishistic, or a modern invention. Indeed, as the festival has remained in place over long periods of profound historical change, it shows how the local retains its particularity while also serving as the very site of historical change. In fact, the dissertation problematizes the master-narrative of the modern nation, and presumptions of radical historical discontinuity, as it illustrates the dissolution of conventional dyads such as traditional-modern and national-local as they merge in festival history. Looking locally permits a reassessment of the presumed oppositions and contradictions implicit in such persistent dyads. This study clearly breaks new ground as it shows how the categories within these dyads have often blurred as they materialized in varying degrees of harmony and tension, just as continuity and change materialized in the places of Kishiwada and the history of the Danjiri Matsuri |
| Keyword | place; popular culture; festivals; identity; Japanese history |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Ellefson, Dylan Christopher |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-EllefsonDy-129.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | IN PLACE OVER TIME: A SPATIAL APPROACH TO POPULAR CULTURE AND IDENTITY FORMATION THROUGH THE DANJIRI FESTIVAL OF KISHIWADA CITY, 1745-1928 by Dylan Christopher Ellefson A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Dylan Christopher Ellefson |
