Tokyo Boogie-Woogie : : Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents / / Hiromu Nagahara.
Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan'...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Popular Song Era
- 1. The Invention of Popular Song
- 2. The State as Critic and Consumer
- 3. The Long War on Popular Song
- 4. Boogie- Woogie Democracy
- 5. The End of Popular Song and of Critique
- Conclusion: The Television Age and Beyond
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index