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Tokyo boogie-woogie : Japan's pop era and its discontents / Hiromu Nagahara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagahara, Hiromu, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Japan--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Social aspects--Japan--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Popular Song Era
- 1. The Invention of Popular Song
- 2. The State as Critic and Consumer
- 3. The Long War on Popular Song
- 4. Boogie- Woogie Democracy
- 5. The End of Popular Song and of Critique
- Conclusion: The Television Age and Beyond
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780674978416
- 0674978412
- 9780674978409
- 0674978404
- OCLC:
- 1004883527
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