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Auteur(s) : Nagahara, Hiromu (1981-....). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Tokyo boogie-woogie [Texte imprimé] : Japan's pop era and its discontents / Hiromu Nagahara
Publication : Cambridge, [Massachusetts] ; London : Harvard university press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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. ; "In this first English-language history of
the origins and impact of the Japanese pop music industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects
the rise of mass entertainment, epitomized by ryåukåoka ("popular songs"), with
Japan's transformation into a middle-class society in the years after World War II.
With the arrival of major international recording companies like Columbia and Victor
in the 1920s, Japan's pop music scene soon grew into a full-fledged culture industry
that reached out to an avid consumer base through radio, cinema, and other media.
The stream of songs that poured forth over the next four decades represented something
new in the nation's cultural landscape. Emerging during some of the most volatile
decades in Japan's history, popular songs struck a deep chord in Japanese society,
gaining a devoted following but also galvanizing a vociferous band of opponents. A
range of critics--intellectuals, journalists, government officials, self-appointed
arbiters of taste--engaged in contentious debates on the merits of pop music. Many
regarded it as a scandal, evidence of an increasingly debased and Americanized culture.
For others, popular songs represented liberation from the oppressive political climate
of the war years. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie is a tale of competing cultural dynamics coming
to a head just as Japan's traditionally hierarchical society was shifting toward middle-class
democracy. The pop soundscape of these years became the audible symbol of changing
times."--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Musique populaire -- Japon
Musique et politique -- Japon
Conditions sociales -- Japon -- 1912-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
781.630 952 (23e éd.) = Musique populaire - Japon
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674971691. - ISBN 0674971698
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454721738
Notice n° :
FRBNF45472173
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
