Japanese Popular Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Popular Music write by Carolyn S. Stevens. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Japanese Popular Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive textual and aural analysis, and on anthropological fieldwork, it provides a wealth of detail, finding differences as well as similarities between the Japanese and Western pop music scenes. Carolyn Stevens shows how Japanese popular music has responded over time to Japan's relationship to the West in the post-war era, gradually growing in independence from the political and cultural hegemonic presence of America. Similarly, the volume explores the ways in which the Japanese artist has grown in independence vis-à-vis his/her role in the production process, and examines in detail the increasingly important role of the jimusho, or the entertainment management agency, where many individual artists and music industry professionals make decisions about how the product is delivered to the public. It also discusses the connections to Japanese television, film, print and internet, thereby providing through pop music a key to understanding much of Japanese popular culture more widely.
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tokyo Boogie-Woogie write by Hiromu Nagahara. This book was released on 2017-04-10. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan’s transformation into a postwar middle-class society.
Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture
Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture write by Timothy J. Craig. This book was released on 2015-04-08. Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating illustrated look at various forms of Japanese popular culture: pop song, jazz, enka (a popular ballad genre of music), karaoke, comics, animated cartoons, video games, television dramas, films and "idols" -- teenage singers and actors. As pop culture not only entertains but is also a reflection of society, the book is also about Japan itself -- its similarities and differences with the rest of the world, and how Japan is changing. The book features 32 pages of manga plus 50 additional photos, illustrations, and shorter comic samples.
Made in Japan
Made in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Made in Japan write by Toru Mitsui. This book was released on 2014-07-17. Made in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Made in Japan serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Japanese popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Japanese music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Japan and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Putting Japanese Popular Music in Perspective; Rockin’ Japan; and Japanese Popular Music and Visual Arts.
Blue Nippon
Blue Nippon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Nippon write by E. Taylor Atkins. This book was released on 2001. Blue Nippon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
