Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity and Power

by Carolyn S. Stevens

Book Overview

Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture.

Based both on extensive textual and aural analysis, and on anthropological fieldwork, it provides a wealth of detail, finding differences as well as similarities between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415492211
• ISBN13: 9780415492218
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"