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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitsui, Tor̄u, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Japan--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Music--Japan--Western influences.

Music.

Music--Western influences.

Japan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations, music

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

1. The French Revolution and the emergence of enka

2. Songs in tripe time were composed, but they are still sung in duple time

3. "Sing Me a Song of Araby" and "My Blue Heaven" : when the production of hit songs began in the late 1920s

4. Far Western in the Far East : Japanese Country & Western

5. Music and protest in the late 1960s : the rise of underground 'folk'

6. Japan in Japan : looking for inexpensive, potential stars from abroad

7. Nurturing the Japanese version of an American tradition : music from the South

8. Domestic exoticism : a trend in the age of 'world music'

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 18 November 2020).

ISBN:

9781501363887

9781501363894

1501363891

9781501363870

1501363875