Popular music in Japan : transformation inspired by the West / Tōru Mitsui.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mitsui, Tōru, 1940- author.

Contributor:

• EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Popular music--Japan--History and criticism.
• Popular music.
• Japan.
• Music--Japan--Western influences.
• Music.

Physical Description:

• 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages) : illustrations, music
• polychrome

Place of Publication:

• New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
• [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

• Transformation inspired by the West (1)
• The French Revolution and the emergence of enka
• Transformation inspired by the West (2)
• Songs in tripe time were composed, but they are still sung in duple time
• Transformation inspired by the West (3)
• "Sing Me a Song of Araby" and "My Blue Heaven": when the production of hit songs began in the late 1920s
• Transformation inspired by the West (4)
• Far Western in the Far East: Japanese Country & Western
• Transformation inspired by the West (5)
• Music and protest in the late 1960s: the rise of underground 'folk'
• Transformation inspired by the West (6)
• Japan in Japan: looking for inexpensive, potential stars from abroad
• Transformation inspired by the West (7)
• Nurturing the Japanese version of an American tradition: music from the South
• Transformation inspired by the West (8)
• Domestic exoticism: a trend in the age of 'world music'
• Transformation inspired by the West (9).

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record

Other Format:

Print version: Mitsui, Tōru, 1940- Popular music in Japan.

ISBN:

• 9781501363887
• 1501363883

Publisher Number:

99985929227

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.