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Sayonara Amerika, sayonara Nippon [electronic resource] : a geopolitical prehistory of J-pop / Michael K. Bourdaghs.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Asia perspectivesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.Description: xii, 285 p. : illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML 3501 .B69 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
The music will set you free : Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the road to freedom in Occupied Japan -- Mapping Misora Hibari : where have all the Asians gone? -- Mystery plane : Sakamoto Kyu and the translations of rockabilly -- Working within the system : group sounds and the commercial and revolutionary potential of noise -- New music and the negation of the negation : Happy End, Arai Yumi, and Yellow Magic Orchestra -- The Japan that can "say yes" : bubblegum music in a postbubble economy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The music will set you free : Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the road to freedom in Occupied Japan -- Mapping Misora Hibari : where have all the Asians gone? -- Mystery plane : Sakamoto Kyu and the translations of rockabilly -- Working within the system : group sounds and the commercial and revolutionary potential of noise -- New music and the negation of the negation : Happy End, Arai Yumi, and Yellow Magic Orchestra -- The Japan that can "say yes" : bubblegum music in a postbubble economy.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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