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PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN-100231158750
ISBN-139780231158756
eBay Product ID (ePID)109078954
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Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameSayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon : a Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAsia / Central Asia, Popular Culture, General, Ethnic, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMusic, Social Science, History
AuthorMichael Bourdaghs
SeriesAsia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight15.7 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-029162
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsIt is truly encouraging to see this Asian specialist presenting an excellent study of a subject so often mishandled in poorly researched journal articles. Bravo! Highly recommended., A well-researched account of the rise of Japanese popular music in the post-war period and is recommended for anyone who has an interest in music as a form of cultural production., Michael Bourdaghs' compellingly readable Sayonara Amerika Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop has imaginatively conceived an original account of how Japan, in the post-war and Cold War years, was able to break with an historical narrative centered on the U.S. military occupation and Japan's subsequent confinement within the American imperium to enter the actual world. Through the production of diverse forms of popular music and the formation of its audiences, Bourdaghs persuasively shows how Japan moved to engaging a genuinely global geopolitical aesthetics, shaping it and being shaped by it, that successfully left behind the narrow precinct of America's Japan for the new world announced by J-Pop., Michael K. Bourdaghs's compellingly readable Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon imaginatively conceives an original account of how Japan, in the postwar and Cold War years, broke with a historical narrative centered on the United States military occupation and Japan's subsequent confinement within the American imperium to enter the actual world. Bourdaghs persuasively shows how Japan, through the production of diverse forms of popular music and the formation of its audiences, engaged a genuinely global geopolitical aesthetics, shaping it and being shaped by it, that successfully left behind the narrow precinct of America's Japan for the new world announced by J-Pop.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal781.630952
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments A Note on Names and the Translation Introduction 1. The Music Will Set You Free: Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the Road to Freedom in Occupied Japan 2. Mapping Misora Hibari: Where Have All the Asians Gone? 3. Mystery Plane: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly 4. Working Within the System: Group Sounds and the Commercial and Revolutionary Potential of Noise 5. New Music and the Negation of the Negation: Happy End, Arai Yumi, and Yellow Magic Orchestra' 6. The Japan That Can "Say Yes": Bubblegum Music in a Postbubble Economy Coda Notes Index
SynopsisFrom the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American hegemony and its uncertainty within ever-shifting geopolitical realities. In the first English-language study of this phenomenon, Michael K. Bourdaghs considers genres as diverse as boogie-woogie, rockabilly, enka , 1960s rock and roll, 1970s new music, folk, and techno-pop. Reading these forms and their cultural import through music, literary, and cultural theory, he introduces readers to the sensual moods and meanings of modern Japan. As he unpacks the complexities of popular music production and consumption, Bourdaghs interprets Japan as it worked through (or tried to forget) its imperial past. These efforts grew even murkier as Japanese pop migrated to the nation's former colonies. In postwar Japan, pop music both accelerated and protested the commodification of everyday life, challenged and reproduced gender hierarchies, and insisted on the uniqueness of a national culture, even as it participated in an increasingly integrated global marketplace. 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.
LC Classification NumberML3501.B69 2012
