Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japanæs Pop Era And Its Discontents

Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with JapanÆs transformation into a postwar middle-class society.

• | Author: Hiromu Nagahara
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Business & Economics
• | ISBN-10: 0674971698
• | ISBN-13: 9780674971691