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  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun

    Series series 33 1/3 Japan
    A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the Philippine jungle where he had hidden for three decades, unconvinced that World War II had ended. Later that year, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big ... Leer más

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  • A History of Popular Culture in Japan

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power and meaning in Japanese history.E. Taylor Atkins shows ... Leer más

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  • A History of Popular Culture in Japan

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and ... Leer más

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  • Modern Japan

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Listen to This

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    One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, ... Leer más

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    de M.E. Brines ...
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  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

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