| Description |
1 online resource (188 pages) |
| Series |
East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture |
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Note on Translations, Japanese, Names, and Sources; Acknowledgments; 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"; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, €this book€explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hardcore (Music) -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History and criticism
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Hardcore (Music) -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203892428 |
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0203892429 |
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