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Tokyo boogie-woogie : Japan's pop era and its discontents / Hiromu Nagahara.
Author
Nagahara, Hiromu
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
©2017
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273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML3501 .N18 2017
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Popular music
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Japan
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History and criticism
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Popular music
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Social aspects
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Japan
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History
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20th century
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Summary note
Between the late 1920s and 1960s, Japan's recording industry produced songs that they simply labeled, "Popular Songs" (ryūkōka). Emerging within the context of the dramatic expansion of mass media during some of the most volatile decades in Japanese history, this musical genre came to occupy the mainstream of Japan's commercial music scene. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie is the first book-length, historical study in English of this musical phenomenon and its impact on the politics of culture in modern Japan. The book focuses on the broad range of self-appointed popular song critics, including musicians, intellectuals, political activists, and government officials, all of whom engaged in a series of contentious debates on these songs' cultural and social merits, or, more frequently, the lack thereof.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-260) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The popular song as an era
The invention of popular song
The state as critic and consumer
The long war on popular song
Boogie-woogie democracy
The end of popular song and of critique
Conclusion: The television age and beyond.
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ISBN
9780674971691
0674971698
LCCN
2016044092
OCLC
959648416
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