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Popular Music in Japan
Transformation Inspired by the West
«In this magisterial march through the history of Japanese popular music, Toru Mitsui shares with us the fine, fun, and surprising details of the happy marriage between Japanese makers of music and the music they loved, mastered, and elaborated. He tells the story of one of the 20th century's great and joyous achievements of profligate cultural synthesis. This is a Japanese story, an American story, and a global story.»
Alan Tansmen, Professor of Japanese, University of California Berkeley, USA
Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka at the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit songs in the record industry in the years preceding the War, and ranging to the adoption of Western genres after the War--the rise of Japanese folk and rock, domestic exoticism as a new trend and J-Pop--Popular Music in Japan is a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of popular music in Japan. Les mer
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Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka at the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit songs in the record industry in the years preceding the War, and ranging to the adoption of Western genres after the War--the rise of Japanese folk and rock, domestic exoticism as a new trend and J-Pop--Popular Music in Japan is a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of popular music in Japan. In eight revised and updated essays written in English by renowned Japanese scholar Toru Mitsui, this book tells the story of popular music in Japan since the late 19th century when Japan began positively embracing the West.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781501363870
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
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«In this magisterial march through the history of Japanese popular music, Toru Mitsui shares with us the fine, fun, and surprising details of the happy marriage between Japanese makers of music and the music they loved, mastered, and elaborated. He tells the story of one of the 20th century's great and joyous achievements of profligate cultural synthesis. This is a Japanese story, an American story, and a global story.»
Alan Tansmen, Professor of Japanese, University of California Berkeley, USA
«Here is the first in-depth account of Japan's popular songs and music spanning the whole century and a half of its modern and postmodern eras. Woven together with mini lectures providing historical contexts, Toru Mitsui's thoroughly researched chapters reveal untold and often hilarious facts about how West met East in a nation's singing.»
Yoshiaki Sato, Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Pop Culture, University of Tokyo, Japan, a
«An exhilarating map of the development of an entire nation's songs, singers and fans, providing ample signposts of further ideas for your listening pleasure.»
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