Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West by Mitsui, Toru

Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501391774)

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Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West by Mitsui, Toru

Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West

$40.95
Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West by Mitsui, Toru

Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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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 enkaat 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.

Author: Toru Mitsui
ISBN-10: 1501391771
ISBN-13: 9781501391774
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
By Toru Mitsui
By Toru Mitsui
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Toru Mitsui is Professor Emeritus of English and Music at Kanazawa University, Japan, where he taught the first postgraduate course in popular music studies in the country. He has been a corresponding editor for Popular Music since 1983, is on the Editorial Board of Popular Music History, and is an International Advisory Editor for Bloomsbury's Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. His publications in English include Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing (co-edited with S. Hosokawa, 1998) and Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music (edited, 2014).

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