The (musical) imaginarium of Konishi Yasuharu, or how to make Western music Japanese

Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • R. Strohm
Book title Studies on a Global History of Music
Book subtitle A Balzan Musicology Project
ISBN
  • 9781138058835
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781315163970
  • 9781351672757
Series SOAS Musicology Series
Pages (from-to) 157-176
Number of pages 20
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract In his historical outline of popular music in Japan, Oliver Seibt pursues two related goals: to describe the challenges for Japanese pop musicians in overcoming an inferiority complex versus European and American pop, and to interpret the ‘imaginarium’ of cultural concepts that made this music-making viable as a national product.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315163970-8 (Final published version)
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