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Middle East Studies / Zed Books
Nenes' Koza Dabasa
Okinawa in the World Music Market Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition. Both a tropical island paradise and the site of some of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Okinawa has a unique culture and a contentious history. Nenes marks its cultural difference as Okinawan by emphasizing its own exoticism, expressed through its music, fashion, imagery, and performance style. Henry Johnson listens to Koza Dabasa as a representation of Okinawa's relationship with the Japanese music industry and with the broader themes of international warfare and local tourism.
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781501351235 • £19.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501351242 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501351259 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501351266 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Japan • Bloomsbury Academic
Jorge Ben Jor’s África Brasil
Frederick Josef Moehn, King’s College London, UK 1976, Rio de Janeiro. Revered Brazilian pop musician Jorge Ben Jor, known for his ‘samba-rock’ fusions and hits such as ‘País Tropical’ and ‘Mas que Nada’, picks up the electric guitar and records the album África Brasil. Through a close examination of the tracks on this seminal album—recorded during a growing cultural negritude of the time in Brazil, especially in Rio—this book explores how Jorge Ben Jor and fellow musicians created a new sound, and probes how ideas about blackness, Africa, and Brazilian identity were evolving during the mid-1970s.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 160 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781501309120 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501309113 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501309144 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501309137 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Brazil • Bloomsbury Academic
Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour
Food, Gender, Rock and Roll Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Carleton College, USA Shonen Knife—an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan—has cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. The 1998 album Happy Hour encapsulates the band’s allure via its fusion of punk rock and cute aesthetics in the service of lyrics focused on food. Saturated in lyrics about edibles from sushi to banana chips, the record initially appears to be a cute pop punk homage to girl power. Brooke McCorkle explores how, embedded in the seemingly straightforward music and lyrics of the album, lies an aesthetic that challenges historical norms regarding gender roles in popular culture.
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781501347948 • £19.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501347955 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501347962 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501347979 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Japan • Bloomsbury Academic
Racionais MCs' Sobrevivendo no Inferno
Derek Pardue, Aarhus University, Denmark In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the ‘Rational’ MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip hop scene in São Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil. In an era when rappers needed to defend the very idea that their work was indeed music and a time when neighborhoods such as Capão Redondo, from where Racionais frontman Mano Brown hailed, often topped homicide statistics, Sobrevivendo empowered as it provoked.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781501338830 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501338878 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501338847 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501338854 • £17.04 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Brazil • Bloomsbury Academic
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