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... the main source of Western pop, providing opportunities for Korean musicians to hone their skills and enrich their repertoire. While this might be seen as a classic example of cultural imperialism, it actually developed a much more complex pattern of glocalization, especially in the case of rock music...

...Katherine G. T. Whatley Abstract Using a group of Japanese‐born experimental musicians who make their lives in Tokyo and New York as a case study, this article examines how new musical genres are created, shared, and mediated through layers of circulations, identities, and locations. The author...

... “Hi o megurasu tori” 火をめぐらす鳥 (“Light Circling Bird”), and a 2009 novel called Suishi 水死 ( Death by Water ). I read these texts along with Isabelle Stengers’s 2009 ecomanifesto In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism to argue that the disabled musician offers powerful tools...

... of subversion by unruly musicians. As we shall see, the actual story is infinitely more complex and raises important issues regard- ing national identity, social integration during times of crisis, the status of the artist in an authoritarian...

... industry as part and parcel of the post-1989 neoliberal reform. Converting from a liberal-minded, individualist rocker to a collectively minded worker-musician, Xu Duo's personal transformation is indicative of the crucial step that must be taken in search of a musical language that befits the self...

... who darken their skin as a sign of respect toward African American musicians. “Your parents, your grandparents are Japanese,” he raps. “You can never be the black person you want to be.”1 Although the percentage of Japanese rappers...

..., a dancer bounces his shoulders lightly and slowly, up and down; he encourages others to join him in dancing, while singers carefully name the individuals involved in the protest, gazing at them one by one. The two percussionists on my left add more sonic flesh to the rhythms, and other musicians on my...

... kind of destabilization of national identities and Nihonjinron ideologies is at work in “Between Koenji and Brooklyn” by Katherine G. T. Whatley, but this time through the global circulation of Japanese experimental music. Focusing on a group of musicians based in Tokyo and New York, namely Michiyo...

... player later recounts her sad life story: she had been a popular musician courted by many a youth, but when her beauty faded, she married a merchant from another town who often leaves her by herself: Cheung ❘ Slanted Allusions...

... technologies distracted the masses from participating in public discourse. In the cultural sphere, the 1970 expo is commonly noted by electronic musicians and music writers and celebrated by electronics manufacturers as a turning point...

... is called a y˘oryu artist and a woman musician is called a y˘oryu musician. Imposing the term y˘oryu sinin on women poets means that women’s poetry is regulated and defined as “sentimental” and “gentle.” DMC: In your writing about women and writing...

... warns, amid the never-­ending charges of “imi- tation” leveled at hip-­hop musicians in Japan, original authenticity and local creativity are often inextricably intertwined in these transnationally oriented productions.10 He suggests...

... as the bards of the military, playing concerts for village audiences. In the Northeast, the band specialized in luk thung, a genre rich with themes of rural labor, migra- tion, and nostalgia for slow living. They played covers of songs by musicians...

... the Gulf War and roundly cursed the Americans. Just then, a group of drunken Japanese in business suits surrounded the Latin American musicians. For no apparent reason, one of the drunks sud- denly became very agitated...

..., or Jazz Goes to War.” Atkins tells the story of the jazz subculture in Japan during the thirties and forties, when musicians continued playing jazz even at a moment of national crisis, in defiance of a state ban and despite its for- eign...

... (1929–77), who pioneered manga criticism, and Yasunao Tone (b. 1935), a musician-theorist, whose art- historicalworkwillbediscussedbelow.41 Onlyafewyearsapart,Miyakawa’s interface with the international feels distinctly “universalist...

... as “group sound” musicians trained in the highly stratified, multiphase audition system of the United States Forces Korea entertainment industry introduced loose, guitar-driven arrangements and soul-inflected vocal delivery to audiences beyond USFK installations and their surrounding camp towns...

.... There was the legacy of the artist villages on the outskirts of Beijing — Yuanming Yuen Village and East Village — that had been safe havens for oppositional culture since the late s. Avant- garde rock musicians had also found refuge in rundown...

... a fortune, so it did not prove very practical. These two islands are very small, so I found the exchange attempt quite fascinating. RI: Another thing he does is introduce people to the revival of tradition. Musicians and weavers...

... and political collaboration that might shed new light on both. In Shanghai, Hughes immediately found himself welcomed into a large and vibrant community of African American jazz musicians and entertainers who had made the passage in order to play...