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Nitta Hachirō
(October 14, 1908 – July 3, 1989) was a Japanese singer of ''ryūkōka'', ''gunka'', and opera. Biography Nitta was born in the village of Shussei (today part of Tsugaru, Aomori, Tsugaru), Nishitsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture in 1908. His father, an elementary school teacher, encouraged Nitta's academic promise. He later enrolled in the Aomori Prefectural Normal School (today part of Hirosaki University). Although initially determined to become a teacher himself, Nitta's budding interest in music eventually led to his enrollment at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo School of Music in 1926. The following year, Nitta dropped out and returned to Aomori, where he taught at a girls' school and composed music in his spare time. In 1935, Nitta returned to Tokyo to continue his musical studies. During this time, he signed onto Taihei Records as a singer and performed in opera, using the stage name . Three years later, he moved to JVC, Nippon Victor as an exclusive artist, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūkōka
is a Japanese music genre, musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the East Asian cultural sphere, sinic reading of ''hayariuta'', used for commercial music of Edo period, Edo Period. Therefore, ''imayō'', which was promoted by Emperor Go-Shirakawa in the Heian period, was a kind of ''ryūkōka''. Today, however, ''ryūkōka'' refers specifically to Japanese popular music from the late 1920s through the early 1960s. Some of the roots of ''ryūkōka'' were developed from Western classical music. ''Ryūkōka'' ultimately split into two genres: ''enka'' and ''poppusu''. Unlike ''enka'', archetypal ''ryūkōka'' songs did not use the ''kobushi'' method of singing. ''Ryūkōka'' used legato. Bin Uehara and Yoshio Tabata are considered to be among the founders of the modern style of ''kobushi'' singing. Many composers and singers of ''ryūkōka'' went on to earn official distinctions; Ichiro Fujiyama and composers Masao Koga and Ryoich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
