Research Catalog

Title

Sayonara Amerika, sayonara Nippon : a geopolitical prehistory of J-pop / Michael K. Bourdaghs.

Author

Bourdaghs, Michael K.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

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Details

Description

xii, 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Each chapter in Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon examines a single genre through a particular theoretical lens: the relation of music to liberation; the influence of cultural mapping on musical appreciation; the role of translation in transmitting musical genres around the globe; the place of noise in music and its relation to historical change; the tenuous connection between ideologies of authenticity and imitation; the link between commercial success and artistic integrity; and the function of melodrama. Bourdaghs concludes with a look at recent Japanese pop music culture.

Series Statement

Asia perspectives: history, society, and culture

Uniform Title

Asia perspectives.

Subject

Popular music > Japan > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The music will set you free : Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the road to freedom in Occupied Japan -- Mapping Misora Hibari : where have all the Asians gone? -- Mystery plane : Sakamoto Kyu and the translations of rockabilly -- Working within the system : group sounds and the commercial and revolutionary potential of noise -- New music and the negation of the negation : Happy End, Arai Yumi, and Yellow Magic Orchestra -- The Japan that can "say yes" : bubblegum music in a postbubble economy.

ISBN

• 9780231158749 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231158742 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231158756 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0231158750 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231530262 (e-book)
• 0231530269 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011029162

OCLC

• 730413618
• SCSB-13671278

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library