Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501391774ISBN-10:1501391771UPC:9781501391774Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Genres & Styles, EthnomusicologyBook Topic:Pop VocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC20YXW33P
Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West
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 enka at 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501391774ISBN-10:1501391771UPC:9781501391774Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Genres & Styles, EthnomusicologyBook Topic:Pop VocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC20YXW33P
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...
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