@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004282,
 author = {久保, 正敏 and Kubo, Masatoshi},
 issue = {4},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This paper traces the history of Japanese popular songs from
the viewpoint of "Travel". The historical span of the discussion
is confined to the Showa era, for the following two reasons:
1) The modern system of producing popular songs was
established at the very beginning of the Showa era;
2) The distinct contrast between urban areas and the provinces,
together with the social unrest in those days, motivated the
traveling and drifting of the people, and consequently brought
the travel songs or sight-seeing songs into fashion.
In this paper, travels sung in popular songs are categorized
into three types: outward travel, homeward travel, and
wandering travel. Outward travel is motivated by a yearning
for some place and can thus be viewed as future-oriented travel.
Homeward travel is motivated mainly by homesickness or some
memory of the past. Wandering travel is accompanied by
homesickness in many cases. The popular songs of the Showa
era are reviewed according to these three types of travel.
In sections 1 and 2, the themes of travel in popular songs are
summarized, and then songs whose words contain place names
or descriptions of local scenery are analyzed. It is pointed out
that changes in the ratio of the number of such songs to the
number of all popular songs are very similar to change in
population drift.
In sections 3, 4 and 5, popular songs are reviewed and
analyzed in regard to outward travel, homeward travel, and
wandering travel respectively. The evident correlation between
the words in these songs and the social environment is shown.
Section 6 deals with a few songs relating to spiritual travels.
In section 7, changes in travel songs are reviewed from
a unique analytical viewpoint. Assuming that the story of the
words of a popular song is scenarized, each song can be
categorized as either a close-up type or a long-shot type in
terms of camera angle, according to the words depicting scenes
and manners and the personal pronouns contained in the words
of the song. Based on this idea, several genres of travel songs are
parameterized and mapped on a two-dimensional space, corresponding
to the camera angle of the story of the song. The
result of the mapping shows that travel songs became more and
more of the close-up type with the passing of time, which seems
to parallel the increasing tendency of Japanese society toward
private-life-oriented conservatism.},
 pages = {943--986},
 title = {歌謡曲の歌詞に見る旅 : 昭和の歌謡史・私論},
 volume = {15},
 year = {1991},
 yomi = {クボ, マサトシ}
}