Editing Music of Japan (section)

===Japanese blues/Enka===
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[[File:藤山一郎.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Ichiro Fujiyama, influential ''ryūkōka'' singer]]
After the [[Meiji Restoration]] introduced Western musical instruction, Shuji Isawa compiled songs like "[[Auld Lang Syne]]" for use in public education. <ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/robertburns/works/auld_lang_syne/ |title = Robert Burns – Auld Lang Syne |publisher = BBC |date = 23 April 2009 | access-date = 1 January 2012 }}</ref> Two major forms of music that developed during this period were [[Shōka (music)|shōka]], which was composed to bring western music to schools, and [[gunka]].<ref>Satoshi Sugita (1972). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153318/http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=osu1170788993 Cherry blossoms and rising sun: a systematic and objective analysis of gunka (Japanese war songs) in five historical periods (1868-1945)]". Dissertation submitted to Ohio State University.</ref>

As Japan moved towards representative [[democracy]] in the late 19th century, leaders hired singers to sell copies of songs that aired their messages, since the leaders themselves were usually prohibited from speaking in public. 
<!--　The street performers were called enka-shi.{{Citation needed|date = November 2009}} Also at the end of the 19th century, an [[Osaka]]n form of streetcorner singing became popular; this was called [[rōkyoku]]. This included the first two Japanese stars, [[Yoshida Naramaru]] and [[Tochuken Kumoemon]].{{Citation needed|date = November 2009}}
Westernized [[pop music]] is called [[kayōkyoku]], which is said to have and first appeared in a dramatization of ''[[Resurrection (novel)|Resurrection]]'' by [[Tolstoy]]. The song "Kachūsha no Uta", composed by [[Shinpei Nakayama]], was sung by [[Sumako Matsui]] in 1914. The song became a hit among enka-shi, and was one of the first major best-selling records in Japan.{{Citation needed|date = November 2009}} [[Ryūkōka]], which adopted Western classical music, made waves across the country in the prewar period.{{Citation needed|date = November 2009}} [[Ichiro Fujiyama]] became popular in the prewar period, but war songs later became popular when [[World War II]] occurred.{{Citation needed|date = November 2009}} Kayōkyoku became a major industry, especially after the arrival of superstar [[Misora Hibari]].{{Citation needed|date = November 2009}} In the 1950s, [[Tango music|tango]] and other kinds of [[Latin music (genre)|Latin music]], especially [[Cuban music]], became very popular in Japan.{{Citation needed|date = November 2009}} -->A distinctively Japanese form of [[tango music|tango]] called "dodompa" emerged. Kayōkyoku became associated with traditional Japanese structures influenced by [[Enka]]. Famous enka singers include [[Hibari Misora]], [[Saburo Kitajima]], [[Ikuzo Yoshi]] and Haruo Minami.