Pre-Owned Japanthem: Counter-Cultural Experiences Cross-Cultural Remixes (Paperback) 1953103154 9781953103154
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Description:   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.
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