TY - BOOK AU - Nagahara,Hiromu TI - Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents SN - 9780674971691 AV - ML3501 .N18 2017eb U1 - 781.630952 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Popular music KW - Social aspects KW - Japan KW - History KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - HISTORY / Asia / Japan KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674978409 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674978409 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674978409.jpg ER -