Tokyo boogie-woogie : Japan's pop era and its discontents / Hiromu Nagahara.
Tokyo boogie-woogie : Japan's pop era and its discontents / Hiromu Nagahara.
Tokyo boogie-woogie : Japan's pop era and its discontents / Hiromu Nagahara.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/1845
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English
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273 pages ; 22 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
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.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2017.
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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...
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Tokyo boogie-woogie : Japan's pop era and its discontents / Hiromu Nagahara.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/1845
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74VKVad5wGQd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVad5wGQd
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0674971698 hardcover
9780674971691 hardcover
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781.630952
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991024099972702626
