“Music” Category Archive

2006年03月15日 水曜日

Westernization and MTV Japan's Top Five

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Music

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...

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2005年07月13日 水曜日

Gwen Stefani's Neverland Nouveau

by Mizuko Ito

Music

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...

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2004年03月04日 木曜日

Train Tone Super-懐かしい

by Justin Hall

Music

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...

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2003年05月29日 木曜日

Polysics In San Francisco

by Justin Hall

Music

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...

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2003年03月06日 木曜日

More Chanpon Music-ほろりと聞く

by Junko Sumiya

Music

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。...

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2002年09月07日 土曜日

Culture-Cuisinarted Coolness

by Tosh Chiang

Features, Music

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:...

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2002年04月08日 月曜日

The Search for Madame Butterfly, and the Evolution of Early Mixed-Culture Myths

by Justin Hall

Books, Features, Music

The Search for Madame Butterfly, and the Evolution of Early Mixed-Culture Myths...

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2002年02月10日 日曜日

The Roots of Modern Chanpon Music

by Justin Hall

Features, Music

Kenji Rikitake writes on Haruomi 'Harry' Hosono, YMO, and the beginning of Chanpon Music...

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2001年12月23日 日曜日

Travelling...

by Justin Hall

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...

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