Here is another installment from my student essays from my Japanese popular culture class last year. This one is from Ainsley Breault. According to an article about MTV, Music Television, the station is "Undeniably an institution… viewed in over 342...
A student from my Japanese Popular Culture class last term has a provocative rant about Gwen Stefani's chanponizing Love. Angel. Music. Baby. album. "Na na na na na..." Thus opens the song "If I Was A Rich Girl" on...
Living as a long-term traveller in Tokyo, I developed a great fondness for the train chimes. Many stations would have their own melodies, and as I wandered around the Yamanote, I relished the minor treble concerts that accompanied each landing...
Last night the Polysics raged the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. Think Devo meets Tetsuo the Iron Man. Four kids wearing metal visors shielding their eyes. One girl talks to the crowd during songs like a robot through...
随分前から流行っていると言えばそうかもしれないが、最近南からの音がまた人気上昇中だ。 昨年のワールドカップではアルゼンチンバージョン「島唄」も聞かれ、奄美大島出身の元ちとせのゆれる歌声も大ブレークした。で、ちょっと前ですが、私の中でぐるぐる回っていたのが「涙そうそう」である。...
Cornelius, the Boredoms, Melt Banana, Guitar Wolf: four bands from Japan that season with western fixin's whilst still keeping the entree nihongo-styled and original in some way:...
The Search for Madame Butterfly, and the Evolution of Early Mixed-Culture Myths...
Kenji Rikitake writes on Haruomi 'Harry' Hosono, YMO, and the beginning of Chanpon Music...
December 17, 2001, Time Magazine in Asia devoted a large story to a Chanpon, Hikaru Utada, a New York born, Tokyo educated Japanese pop star who has decided to educate herself in the States: Diva on Campus "Freshman Utada...
