Music in the Making of Modern Japan

Kei Hibino is Professor of English in the Faculty of Humanities, Seikei University, Japan. His published works include: The Postwar Development of Japanese Musicals (2017), American Labor: The Cultural Representations of Labor in the United States (2017), and Japonisme in Theatre (2016).Barnaby Ralph is a Professor in the Department of British and American Literature, Seikei University, Japan.  Recent publications include the book London And Literature, 1603-1901, for which he was principal editor, “Four Men in a Boat: Dryden, D'Avenant, Shadwell, Locke and The Tempest”.Henry Johnson is Professor of Music at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His books include The Koto (Hotei, 2004), The Shamisen (2010) and The Shakuhachi (2014). He is Associate Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago.

• 1. Introduction (Kei Hibino, Barnaby Ralph and Henry Johnson).- PART I. Reception.- 2. Western Art Music in Pre-Edo and Meiji Japan: Historical Reception, Cultural Change and Education (Ayako Otomo).- 3. Western Musical Elements in Japanese Koto Music from the 19th to 21st Centuries: Sonic, Visual and Behavioral Spheres in a Context of Cultural Change (Henry Johnson).- 4. Guitar Making and Intercultural Communication in Japan and Australia (Gavin Carfoot).- PART II. Transformation.- 5. Black Intentions: Maki Ishii, Ryohei Hirose, Makoto Shinohara and the Japanese Avant-Garde (Barnaby Ralph).- 6. Scarlett, an American Musical Made in Japan; or, How Japanese Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Integrated Musicals (Kei Hibino).- 7. Like Some Cat from Japan: Masayoshi Sukita’s Photographs of David Bowie as Japan’s First Appearance in the History of Rock Music (Yuki Gennaka).- PART III. Cultural Flow.- 8.The Flow of Jazz in Japan: Why Jazz Resonates So Far from Home (Michael Pronko).- 9. Juna's Groove and Emi's Beat: Women and Rock in Modern Japan (Barnaby Ralph in conversation with Emi Yonekubo and Juna Serita).- 10. Manufacturing Identity: Femininity, Discourse and Representation in Japanese Popular Music (Aya Sato and Ayako Otomo).