Japanthem : counter-cultural experiences, cross-cultural remixes
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Japanthem : counter-cultural experiences, cross-cultural remixes
Three Rooms Press, 2022
- : trade pbk
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“In this illuminating debut, Marshall offers an outsider’s look into Japanese culture via its music . . . Throughout, her sharp observations are interspersed with moving moments of introspection . . . This transportive work is a thrilling escape.” —Publishers Weekly
Fulbright and mtvU sponsored scholar Jillian Marshall offers honest and often humorous vignettes that delve far beyond Western stereotypes of Japanese culture to portray a society’s deep relationship with music, and what it means to listen and understand as a cultural outsider.
Following a decade of back-and-forth across the Pacific while researching her doctoral thesis in ethnomusicology, JAPANTHEM author Jillian Marshall reveals contemporary Japan through a prism of magic, serendipity, frustration, unique underground culture, learning life lessons the hard way, and an insatiable curiosity for the human spirit. The book’s twenty vignettes — including what it’s like to be subtly bullied by your Buddhist dance teacher, go to a secret rave in woods near Mt. Fuji, meet a pop star at a basement club while tipsy, and experience a nuclear disaster unfold by the minute — are based off first-hand experience, and illustrate music’s fascinating relationship to (Japanese) society with honesty, intelligence, and humor. JAPANTHEM offers a uniquely nuanced portrayal of life in the Land of the Rising Sun — while encouraging us to listen more deeply in (and to) Japan in the process.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Toward a Public Intellectualism
On Noise
Hate/Love
Ugo, Akita
Amerika the Beautiful, In Two Acts
3/11
Interlude I: Context, Lyrics, and Interviews
En, Underground
The Dance Teacher
Idols You Can Touch! (As Two Scenes)
The Secret Mountain Party
“You Came In Here, Didn’t You?”
Peripheral Encounters: A Series of Personal/Social/Musical Experiments
Three Akita Bijin
The Matsuyama Tour
初DJ の経験
Interlude II: Music for the People
On Making it Big
Akita-ben
The Celebrity
Portrait of an (Underground) Artist as a Young Man
Epilogue
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