Making Music in Japan's Underground : The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

ISBN-13: 9780415961523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 171 str.

Jennifer Milioto Matsue

Opis

Drawing on theories of play, identity building, and the construction of gender, this book offers an interdisciplinary look at the importance of musical scenes in Japan for expressing resistance at the turn of the 21st century.

Spis treści

Introduction: Ethnography of a Scene  1. The Underground Tokyo Hardcore Scene  2. Trains, 20,000volt, Tower Records, and the Illicit Intimacy of the Spaces of Play  3. Schoolboys, Aspiring Stars, Underground Girls, and the Multiple Identities of the People who Play  4. More than the Musical in the Performance of Hardcore.  Conclusion: Meaning and the Power of Performance.  Epilogue: “Koenji, the sacred place for underground music."

O autorze

Jennifer Milioto Matsue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Union College.