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Home / publications / Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop

bourdaghsASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE

Michael Bourdaghs. Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (2012)

“Bourdaghs persuasively shows how Japan, through the production of diverse forms of popular music and the formation of its audiences, engaged a genuinely global geopolitical aesthetics, shaping it and being shaped by it, that successfully left behind the narrow precinct of America’s Japan for the new world announced by J-Pop.”9—Harry Harootunian, Duke University, author of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan

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