Sayonara Amerika, sayonara Nippon
Subtitle: a geopolitical prehistory of J-pop
By: Michael K. Bourdaghs
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780231158749; 9780231158756; 9780231530262
Subjects: Popular music; History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The music will set you free : Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the road to freedom in Occupied Japan; title: Mapping Misora Hibari : where have all the Asians gone?; title: Mystery plane : Sakamoto Kyu and the translations of rockabilly; title: Working within the system : group sounds and the commercial and revolutionary potential of noise; title: New music and the negation of the negation : Happy End, Arai Yumi, and Yellow Magic Orchestra; title: The Japan that can "say yes" : bubblegum music in a postbubble economy.