The Beatles in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780367878085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 180 str.

Carolyn S. Stevens

Opis

The Beatles’ engagement with Japan, especially their 1966 tour, highlights a great deal about Japan’s postwar cultural development and Japan’s deepening relationship with the West. Up to the 1960s Japan’s reconstruction phase was not fully completed, its “economic miracle” and the associated high level of self-confidence were not yet in place, and

Spis treści

1. Introducing … The Beatles in Japan

2. The Road to the Budōkan: Setting the Stage

3. The Beatles at the Budōkan: The Storm Hits

4. Interlude: Manila and Memphis

5. John and Yoko: ‘All we had done as two people was become close’

6. Japan Revisited: Touring with Paul and George

7. Conclusion

O autorze

Carolyn Stevens is Professor of Japanese Studies at Monash University, Australia