Periodic Reporting for period 2 - CEJaMS (Choreographing Emigration: Japanese Tango Musicians in Shanghai, 1920-1945)

Between 1920 and 1945, many Japanese tango musicians migrated to work at the Shanghai and Manchurian dance halls in Japan-occupied China. The cosmopolitan cities of Shanghai and Manchuria were considered by Japanese musicians as a musically ‘authentic’ place to work and to...