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Tokyo Boogie-Woogie : Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents / Hiromu Nagahara.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674971691
  • 9780674978409
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.630952 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3501 .N18 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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's transformation into a postwar middle-class society.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674978409

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

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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's transformation into a postwar middle-class society.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)