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Perfume

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...Perfume is a j-pop (Japanese pop) and electro-pop all-girl trio, formed in Hiroshima, Japan. Perfume is considered to be one of the most influential girl groups in Japan. The group comprises the three members Yuka Kashino (stage name...

Transformation inspired by the West (9)

Tōru Mitsui

Tōru Mitsui is Professor Emeritus of English and Music at Kanazawa University, Japan, where he taught the first postgraduate course in popular music studies in the country. He has been a corresponding editor for Popular Music since 1983, is on the Editorial Board of Popular Music History, and is an International Advisory Editor for Bloomsbury’s Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. His publications in English include Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing (co-edited with S. Hosokawa, 1998) and Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music (2014). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Popular Music in Japan : Transformation Inspired by the West

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Scholarly Books

...Indigenous music compared with others The various stylized forms of indigenous music have not been seriously threatened per se by the impulse of westernization. Despite the active introduction of Western music, many stylized forms...

AKB48

Patrick W. Galbraith, Jason G. Karlin

Patrick W. Galbraith, Jason G. Karlin

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

33 1/3 Books

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...Since its formation as a girl group in 2005, AKB48 has become a phenomenal success and institution in Japan. Having originally recruited fans with photocopied fliers and daily performances in the Akihabara area of Tokyo, AKB48 now saturates...

Supercell's Supercell featuring Hatsune Miku

Keisuke Yamada

Keisuke Yamada is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently working on a long-term ethnographic project involving the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed instrument) in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and North America, especially focusing on the transnational circulation of the materials from which the instrument is made. His work has appeared in Asian Music, Ethnomusicology Review, and the Journal of World Popular Music, among others. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Noriko Manabe (ed)

Noriko Manabe

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

33 1/3 Books

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...The lead singer on Supercell’s eponymous first album is Hatsune Miku—a Vocaloid character created by Crypton Future Media with voice synthesizers. A virtual superstar, over 100,000 songs, uploaded mostly by fans, are attributed to her...

Perfume’s GAME

Patrick St. Michel

Patrick St. Michel is a writer in Tokyo focusing on Japanese music and pop culture. He has operated the Japanese music blog Make Believe Melodies since 2009, and his work has appeared in The Japan Times, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, The Fader, MTV, Vice, and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

33 1/3 Books

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...Released in 2008, J-pop trio Perfume’s GAME shot to the top of Japanese music charts and turned the Hiroshima trio into a household name across the country. It was also a high point for techno-pop, the genre’s biggest album since the heyday...

Thailand

John Clewley

John Clewley

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

Encyclopedia Articles

...Population: 62.300,000 (2002). The kingdom of Thailand, located in Southeast Asia on the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea, shares boundaries with Myanmar (Burma) to the west and northwest, Laos to the east and northeast...