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* Read * Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) by Michael Bourdaghs ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) 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 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. Bourdaghs con
| Title | : | Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231158750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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 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. Bourdaghs concludes with a look at recent Japanese pop music culture.. 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. In the first English-language study of this phenomenon, Michael K. From 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. Reading these forms and their cultural import t
He is the author of The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism and a translation editor of Natsume Soseki's Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings and Kamei Hideo's Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature.. Bourdaghs is associate professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of Chicago. Michael K
"Really interesting" according to Francescut. I juste started reading this book and it seems really interesting, we learn a lot of things about how music was perceived in Japan during and after WWII until the 21th Century. I
(Eric Abbey Popular Music and Society) . (Harry Harootunian, Duke University, author of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan)For music, history, or cultural fans of contemporary Japan, this book is a chart-topper. 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. (Kris Kosaka Japan Times)It is truly encouraging to see this Asian specialist presenting an excellent study of a subject so often mishandled in poorly researched journal articles. Bourdaghs persuasively shows how Japan, through the production of diverse forms of popular music and the formation of its audiences, e
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