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Hip-Hop Japan

Author : Ian Condry
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388162
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Hip-Hop Japan written by Ian Condry and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-described “yellow B-Boys” express their devotion to “black culture,” how they combine the figure of the samurai with American rapping techniques and gangsta imagery, and how underground artists compete with pop icons to define “real” Japanese hip-hop. He discusses how rappers manipulate the Japanese language to achieve rhyme and rhythmic flow and how Japan’s female rappers struggle to find a place in a male-dominated genre. Condry pays particular attention to the messages of emcees, considering how their raps take on subjects including Japan’s education system, its sex industry, teenage bullying victims turned schoolyard murderers, and even America’s handling of the war on terror. Condry attended more than 120 hip-hop performances in clubs in and around Tokyo, sat in on dozens of studio recording sessions, and interviewed rappers, music company executives, music store owners, and journalists. Situating the voices of Japanese artists in the specific nightclubs where hip-hop is performed—what musicians and fans call the genba (actual site) of the scene—he draws attention to the collaborative, improvisatory character of cultural globalization. He contends that it was the pull of grassroots connections and individual performers rather than the push of big media corporations that initially energized and popularized hip-hop in Japan. Zeebra, DJ Krush, Crazy-A, Rhymester, and a host of other artists created Japanese rap, one performance at a time.

24 Bars to Kill

Author : Andrew B. Armstrong
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920268X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book 24 Bars to Kill written by Andrew B. Armstrong and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from widespread dissatisfaction and malaise.

Hip-Hop Japan

Author : Ian Condry
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822338925
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Hip-Hop Japan written by Ian Condry and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of Japanese hip-hop.

Japanese Rap Music

Author : Ian Condry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Rap Music written by Ian Condry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hip-hop Revolution

Author : Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Hip-hop Revolution written by Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As hip-hop artists constantly struggle to "keep it real," this fascinating study examines the debates over the core codes of hip-hop authenticity--as it reflects and reacts to problematic black images in popular culture--placing hip-hop in its proper cultural, political, and social contexts.

Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground

Author : Ian F. Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937220051
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground written by Ian F. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sugar rush of Tokyo's idol subculture to the discordant polyrhythms of its experimental punk and indie scenes, this book by Japan Times music columnist Ian F. Martin offers a witty and tender look at the wide spectrum of issues that shape Japanese music today. With unique theories about the evolution of J-pop as well as its history, infrastructure and (sub)cultures, Martin deconstructs an industry that operates very differently from counterparts overseas. Based partly on interviews with influential artists, label owners and event organisers, Martin's book combines personal anecdotes with cultural criticism and music history. An accessible and humorous account emerges of why some creative acts manage to overcome institutional pressures, without quitting their bands. Ian Martin's writing about Japanese music has appeared in The Japan Times, CNN Travel and The Guardian among other places. Martin is based in Tokyo, where he also runs Call And Response Records.

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

Author : William H. Bridges
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498505481
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production written by William H. Bridges and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors are interested primarily in texts in motion—the contradictory motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s) in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts and themselves.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Author : Noriko Manabe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606533
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Revolution Will Not Be Televised written by Noriko Manabe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the mainstream media adheres to the official line that nuclear power is Japan's future. Public debate about nuclear energy is strongly discouraged. Nevertheless, antinuclear activism has swelled into one of the most popular and passionate movements in Japan, leading to a powerful wave of protest music. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima shows that music played a central role in expressing antinuclear sentiments and mobilizing political resistance in Japan. Combining musical analysis with ethnographic participation, author Noriko Manabe offers an innovative typology of the spaces central to the performance of protest music--cyberspace, demonstrations, festivals, and recordings. She argues that these four spaces encourage different modes of participation and methods of political messaging. The openness, mobile accessibility, and potential anonymity of cyberspace have allowed musicians to directly challenge the ethos of silence that permeated Japanese culture post-Fukushima. Moving from cyberspace to real space, Manabe shows how the performance and reception of music played at public demonstrations are shaped by the urban geographies of Japanese cities. While short on open public space, urban centers in Japan offer protesters a wide range of governmental and commercial spaces in which to demonstrate, with activist musicians tailoring their performances to the particular landscapes and soundscapes of each. Music festivals are a space apart from everyday life, encouraging musicians and audience members to freely engage in political expression through informative and immersive performances. Conversely, Japanese record companies and producers discourage major-label musicians from expressing political views in recordings, forcing antinuclear musicians to express dissent indirectly: through allegories, metaphors, and metonyms. The first book on Japan's antinuclear music, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised provides a compelling new perspective on the role of music in political movements.

To the Break of Dawn

Author : William Jelani Cobb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814716717
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book To the Break of Dawn written by William Jelani Cobb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. "To the Break of Dawn" uniquely examines this freestyle verbal artistry on its own terms. A kid from Queens who spent his youth at the epicenter of this new art form, music critic William Jelani Cobb takes readers inside the beats, the lyrics, and the flow of hip hop, separating mere corporate rappers from the creative MCs that forged the art in the crucible of the street jam.The four pillars of hip hop - break dancing, graffiti art, deejaying, and rapping - find their origins in traditions as diverse as the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira and Caribbean immigrants' turnstile artistry.

Global Noise

Author : Tony Mitchell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819565020
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Global Noise written by Tony Mitchell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International scholars explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia.

Babylon East

Author : Marvin Sterling
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392739
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Babylon East written by Marvin Sterling and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international dancehall community by winning the event. In 2002, the Japanese dancer Junko Kudo became the first non-Jamaican to win Jamaica’s National Dancehall Queen Contest. High-profile victories such as these affirmed and invigorated Japan’s enthusiasm for dancehall reggae. In Babylon East, the anthropologist Marvin D. Sterling traces the history of the Japanese embrace of dancehall reggae and other elements of Jamaican culture, including Rastafari, roots reggae, and dub music. Sterling provides a nuanced ethnographic analysis of the ways that many Japanese involved in reggae as musicians and dancers, and those deeply engaged with Rastafari as a spiritual practice, seek to reimagine their lives through Jamaican culture. He considers Japanese performances and representations of Jamaican culture in clubs, competitions, and festivals; on websites; and in song lyrics, music videos, reggae magazines, travel writing, and fiction. He illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class as he discusses topics ranging from the cultural capital that Japanese dancehall artists amass by immersing themselves in dancehall culture in Jamaica, New York, and England, to the use of Rastafari as a means of critiquing class difference, consumerism, and the colonial pasts of the West and Japan. Encompassing the reactions of Jamaica’s artists to Japanese appropriations of Jamaican culture, as well as the relative positions of Jamaica and Japan in the world economy, Babylon East is a rare ethnographic account of Afro-Asian cultural exchange and global discourses of blackness beyond the African diaspora.

Made in Japan

Author : Toru Mitsui
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135955344
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Made in Japan written by Toru Mitsui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Japan serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Japanese popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Japanese music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Japan and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Putting Japanese Popular Music in Perspective; Rockin’ Japan; and Japanese Popular Music and Visual Arts.

The Games Black Girls Play

Author : Kyra D. Gaunt
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814731201
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Games Black Girls Play written by Kyra D. Gaunt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African American girls learn--how, in effect, these games contain the DNA of black music. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of gameplaying, Gaunt argues that black girls' games are connected to long traditions of African and African American musicmaking, and that they teach vital musical and social lessons that are carried into adulthood. - from publisher information.

Japanese Music & Musical Instruments

Author : William P. Malm
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462912354
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Music & Musical Instruments written by William P. Malm and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1990-06-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan. Japanese Music and Musical Instruments has three main orientations: The history of Japanese music Construction of the instruments Analysis of the music itself. The book covers in a lucidly written text and a wealth of fascinating photographs and drawings the main forms of musical expression. Many readers will find the useful hints on purchasing instruments, records, and books especially valuable, and for those who wish to pursue the matter further there is a selected bibliography and a guide to Tokyo's somewhat hidden world of Japanese music. It will be found an invaluable aid to the understanding and appreciation of an important, but little-known, and fascinating aspect of Japanese culture.

This Japanese Life.

Author : Eryk Salvaggio
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781489596987
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book This Japanese Life. written by Eryk Salvaggio and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about Japan will tell you how to use chopsticks and say "konnichiwa!" Few honestly tackle the existential angst of living in a radically foreign culture. The author, a three-year resident and researcher of Japan, tackles the thousand tiny uncertainties of living abroad. -- Adapted from back cover

Japanese Hip Hop Musicians

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230633541
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Hip Hop Musicians written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Japanese hip hop groups, Japanese rappers, King Giddra, Verbal, Sho Sakurai, Taku Takahashi, M-Flo, SoulJa, Home Made Kazoku, Halcali, DJ Honda, Rip Slyme, Bennie K, RSP, Dabo, Zeebra, Soul'd Out, DJ Krush, Heartsdales, Emi Hinouchi, Ya-kyim, Nujabes, Kreva, Rhymester, Teriyaki Boyz, Wise, East End X Yuri, Shing02, Ken the 390, Yuri Ichii, Hime, Yuya Matsushita, Keisuke Ogihara, Dohzi-T, NIPPS, Scha Dara Parr, Claude Maki, Nitro Microphone Underground, M.c.A.T, Tha Blue Herb, Uzi, Uyama Hiroto, NYCCA, K Dub Shine, Kick the Can Crew, Shakkazombie, List of Japanese hip hop musicians, Kohei Japan, Mitsuhiro Hidaka, Miss Monday, Sugar Soul. Excerpt: Verbal (born August 21, 1975, stylized as VERBAL) is a Japanese third generation Zainichi Korean hip-hop MC, who debuted in 1998 as a member of the J-Pop hip-hop duo m-flo. m-flo's hits in the early 2000s, such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again" led to Verbal rapping and producing a wide range of acts in Japan such as Crystal Kay, BoA and Namie Amuro. Verbal considers his role in m-flo as a "host" than a rapper or producer, though their success and critical acclaim established them as an iconic and influential hiphop production team throughout Asia Verbal is also a member of other hip-hop groups such as Mic Banditz and Teriyaki Boyz and has worked with Kanye West, Pharrell and Kylie Minogue amongst many others. Verbal is also the chairman of music label Espionage Records (joint venture with Avex Group), production agency Kozm and has a fashion brand called Ambush. He launched his solo career in March 2011 with the album "Visionair." Verbal was born in Tokyo in 1975. In 1985, his parents moved to Boston in the United States for work. When at a YMCA summer camp, Verbal was first exposed to hip-hop music, in the form of Run-D.M.C.'s "It's Tricky" when the other...

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

Author : Michael K. Bourdaghs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231158742
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon written by Michael K. Bourdaghs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American hegemony and its uncertainty within ever-shifting geopolitical realities. In the first English-language study of this phenomenon, Michael K. Bourdaghs considers genres as diverse as boogie-woogie, rockabilly, enka, 1960s rock and roll, 1970s new music, folk, and techno-pop. Reading these forms and their cultural import through music, literary, and cultural theory, he introduces readers to the sensual moods and meanings of modern Japan. As he unpacks the complexities of popular music production and consumption, Bourdaghs interprets Japan as it worked through (or tried to forget) its imperial past. These efforts grew even murkier as Japanese pop migrated to the nation's former colonies. In postwar Japan, pop music both accelerated and protested the commodification of everyday life, challenged and reproduced gender hierarchies, and insisted on the uniqueness of a national culture, even as it participated in an increasingly integrated global marketplace. Each chapter in Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon examines a single genre through a particular theoretical lens: the relation of music to liberation; the influence of cultural mapping on musical appreciation; the role of translation in transmitting musical genres around the globe; the place of noise in music and its relation to historical change; the tenuous connection between ideologies of authenticity and imitation; the link between commercial success and artistic integrity; and the function of melodrama. Bourdaghs concludes with a look at recent Japanese pop music culture.