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	Japanese music on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is orchestral music using the sho (a mouth organ, the Chinese sheng), the shakuhachi (a long flute), and the hichiriki (a small oboe).
		Japanese music is of uneven phrase length, and the fourth is a particularly important interval.
		The music is primarily monophonic, although heterophony occurs in orchestral music and in pieces for voice and koto.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/j/japan-mus.asp (996 words)

	facts JPN-music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of the characteristic features of Japanese culture is the way in which the cultural elements of a variety of lands exist side by side in harmony, exerting a constant influence on the existing culture and thus producing a new culture as a result.
		Popular music numbers and songs, which have become hits in Europe and the U.S., are almost immediately introduced and played in Japan, and recordings are promptly put on sale.
		Instrumental music from the West permeated the general public through performances by the military bands of the Army and the Navy, organized with the cooperation of foreign countries such as Britain, France and Germany.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/japan/japmusic.html (2737 words)

	J-pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese stores typically divide their music into 4 sections: J-pop, Enka (a traditional form of ballad), classical, and English/International.
		While she sold millions with her RandB sounds, pop music was still popular in Japan with solo female singers such as Hamasaki Ayumi, Kuraki Mai and Ami Suzuki, and female pop groups like SPEED and Morning Musume sold millions of records with their pop-techno sounds.
		J-pop music is an integral part of Japanese popular culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J-Pop (1515 words)

	J-POP JAPANESE MUSIC
		Music industry in Japan is now one of the biggest industries in the world and affecting the music scene in other countries.
		Japanese music scene has been developed by Japanese artists and influences from overseas artists, mainly from U.S. and U.K. It is interesting that we can find every genre of music we can think of, in the Japanese music scene if we look at the weekly music charts like Orikon.*
		Once the new music is rooted in Japanese music scene, they are no longer imported music.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /culture/j-pop.html (442 words)

	J-Pop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		J-Pop (an acronym for Japanese Popular music) is a generic term that describes many different genres of current musical styles such as pop, rock, dance, rap and soul.
		Jazz re-introduced many of the musical instruments that were previously only used to perform classical music and military marching music to bars and clubs and introduced "fun" to Japan's music scene.
		Foreign music performers like JATP and Louis Armstrong visited Japan and performed and the year 1952 was called "The Year of the Jazz Boom".
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/J-Pop.htm (1212 words)

	Ian Condry @ MIT
		Many in the music world doubted that it would be possible to rap in Japanese, that is, to be able to perform with the needed rhythmic nuance ("flow") and rhymes, because the language itself was viewed as deficient: It didn't use stress accents and sentences must end with one of a few simple verb endings.
		A leader in what's called "Japanese R&B," Utada is bilingual, raised in both NYC and Tokyo, and she stands as icon of transnational popular music.
		The music was often tied to student protest, or, as in the following example, criticizing some of the assumptions of new middle class society, such as the "educational arms race" of competition for slots in the best schools.
	web.mit.edu /condry/www (2234 words)

	Popular Music and Society: SMAP, sex, and masculinity: constructing the perfect female fantasy in Japanese popular music
		However, unlike most young Japanese stars who rise and fall from fame rather rapidly, members of the band have been, and continue to be, a significant presence in the Japanese media since the early 1990s--when they were still teenagers.
		Clearly, the band's popularity is not based solely on their musical talent and can only be adequately understood when considered in relationship to the larger context of the Japanese popular cultural environment.
		In their article on Japanese music variety shows, Carolyn Stevens and Shuhei Hosokawa note that television appearances are crucial to a musician's success.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_3_27/ai_n6330590 (1414 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japanese music (Music: History) - Encyclopedia
		Japanese music, the highly eclectic musical culture of the Japanese islands.
		A.D. 453 consisted of chanted poems (reyei and imayo), traditional war and social songs (kume-uta and saibara), and the kagura, solemn Shinto temple music.
		The first, used in sacred music and common to all of East Asia, has two modes : ryo, the male mode, and ritsu, the female mode.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/Japan-mus.html (697 words)

	Masculinity in Popular Japanese Music
		Simply because this music was able to reach the Japanese music market on such a wide scale, I will make the argument that Japanese viewers were more tolerant of this video than an American audience conceivably would be.
		For Westerners unfamiliar with Japanese music, the visual style can be a bit too much of a shock at first, sometimes even causing them to dismiss the artist in question entirely.
		Many contemporary Japanese musical artists are able to openly display characteristics that have been traditionally associated with femininity in both Western and Eastern contexts and are still thought of as idols to be worshipped by screaming female fans.
	www.j-fan.com /edit.cgi?selected=jpop_masculinity (2151 words)

	Japanese Music: Popular Genres
		J-pop is probably the hardest genre of Japanese music to categorize or describe.
		As is the case for "pop music" in the United States, a great deal of different sounds tend to fall under this label.
		Japanese artists such as Takako Minekawa, Fantastic Plastic Machine (aka Tomoyuki Tanaka), and Kahimi Karie are creating some of the most ground-breaking beats in the world today.
	web.mit.edu /21f.066/www/theisen/music/genres2.html (607 words)

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		Music consists of ballads to mid-tempo mellow pop, relying heavily on synthesizer.] o OOGURO, Maki (Currently using "Ohguro") o SHINOHARA, Ryoko [Sentimental, techno-pop.
		Music tends to be very mellow, quiet, and sad.
		Okinawa is extremely rich in local music and dance, whose folk songs are known as "shima uta" (island songs).
	ucsu.colorado.edu /~jheath/faq3a.html (1804 words)

	Essays in journals on Popular Music - Japanese
		The first Japanese journal which devotes itself to the study of popular music was finally started in 1997 by JASPM (the Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music) as its house journal.
		The title in Japanese letters can phonetically be transcribed as "popular-ongaku kenkyu" and translated as popular music studies.
		At any rate, another academic journal of popular music bravely made its appearance, albeit to a very narrow readership, in a country where one can easily find a bunch of pop periodicals alluringly arrayed in bookstores.
	www.iaspm.net /rpm/jour_Jap.html (806 words)

	Japanese music Guide
		Music over here may be a lot less melodramatic and gimmicky than it once was, but along with that baggage went all of the good things that made it an absorbing experience.
		Especially in the case of Japanese music since it's such a huge and diverse industry with dozens upon dozens of new releases on a weekly basis.
		Music is an emotional medium so if you can't let them hear for themselves, you must paint a picture in words with your own feelings so that they get an idea.
	www.furinkan.com /tomobiki/wagaku/intro.htm (1735 words)

	Popular Music & Society
		"Popular Music and Society: A Report." 6.1 (1978): 1.
		"Music in the Community: A Survey of Who Is Paying Attention." 7.1 (1979): 37-56.
		Dixon, Richard R. "Suggested Scales for the Measurement of Musical Involvement and Genre Tastes." 7.4 (1980): 223-44.
	www.niu.edu /popms/author/d.html (774 words)

	SDHPI-2004.html (Music Cognition Group Publications) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The aim of this study is to investigate the linguistic impact on rhythm in music.
		In this study we apply the same index to analyze popular music with English and Japanese lyrics composed by Japanese composers to investigate an influence of the language of the lyrics on musical rhythm.
		Results showed a slight but significant tendency which supports the prediction that musical rhythm reflects certain aspects of the characteristics of the language of the lyrics.
	cf.hum.uva.nl /mmm/abstracts/SDHPI-2004.html (153 words)

	infinity8LUE 'creativity is infinite' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At present, there are a lot of people who are in constant contact with Japanese cultures by means of Animation, Movie, Food etc. Those who are Japanese keep their lifestyle in Australia similar to that of their home country.
		Japanese Popular Music have one of the greatest influence upon Popular Music in Asia.
		He was part of a chorus belonging to Columbia Records at the age of 6 and by the age of 12 he had successfully recorded a total of twenty songs.
	www.infinity8lue.com /events/sakurasnow04 (362 words)

	In My Room: Japan for Sale: Contemporary Japanese popular alternative music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japan For Sale is a series of comps that profile popular Japanese "alternative" bands of the non-Jpop variety (i.e.
		Japanese mega girl-pop group Puffy AmiYumi (also adequately represented on the Japan for Sale series) has their own animated series premiering on Cartoon Network next month (For those of you who watch plenty of CN, Puffy AmiYumi did the theme song to the show "Teen Titans").
		Although Japanese popular music has made little headway in America, it's interesting to observe that the most popular Japanese artists in America tend to be the most interesting, unusual or extreme.
	inmyroom.org /000178.html (502 words)

	Amazon.com: Mother's Songs - Japanese Popular Songs: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The problem is, it is not Japanese, except for the songs themselves.
		The instrumentation is completely western, and the arrangements of the songs tend to downplay the eastern sound of the compositions.
		Maybe I just didn't understand what this would be: I didn't expect koto music or anything, but I did expect to expose my children to a different type of musical structure.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000016PZ/howtojapanemart (633 words)

	Modern Japan - Entertainment - Popular Music
		Think about it - Sony Music Entertainment is one of the biggest record companies in the world; Yamaha is the largest manufacturer of musical instruments in the world; Japan has the sixth-largest population in the world; the music industry generates billions and billions of dollars worldwide every year.
		Although the heyday of the idols was in the 80's, the musical artists of the Johnny's Jimusho talent agency such as SMAP, V6 and Kinki Kids have ruled the airwaves for the best part of the decade.
		Lest you think that Japanese popular music is all commercialism and void of any artistic merit, I should mention that there are some the more talented artists who have made the big time.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/pop.shtml (1366 words)

	Otakon VI - July 4th, 1999 - J-Pop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Once he learned of the delightful music from Japan, Pearl said he grew to haunt Japanese stores that carried the albums, going to far as to try to scribble Japanese pictograms of groups and show them to store clerks in hopes of getting the groups' albums.
		When discussing that music on a Usenet newsgroup, he coined the phrase "J-Pop" to describe the music - and the phrase stuck.
		Levy loves that Japanese alternate rock, and was pleased to see that many of the people in the panel's audience also follow that music.
	www.fansview.com /1999/070499c.htm (374 words)

	Teaching Guide for Japan Pop! Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture
		Selected chapters are also appropriate for courses on Japanese music and visual arts (manga, anime, TV and film), and courses which deal with the export and globalization of popular culture.
		Japanese find the book very interesting; they easily relate to the content and are fascinated to learn how scholars (mainly non-Japanese) view their national pop culture.
		Osamu Tezuka is a giant in the history of Japanese manga (comics), and is responsible for the development of the "story manga" (the predominant form in Japanese comics) and many of the characteristic stylistic features of Japanese comics.
	www.mesharpe.com /pop_guide.htm (3553 words)

	Whole Earth Review: Shout sister shout: inside and outside Japanese pop music - Access to Japan
		A peppy dance tune with lyrics by a major poet, the song caused such a frenzy of mass street-dancing that traffic was blocked in large sections of Tokyo and the Emperor was kept awake well past his bedtime.
		But it might be argued that the Japanese have short-circuited the MTV routine entirely and gone straight to commercials.
		If Japanese pop merely mimicked Western forms, there wouldn't be much thrill in it for the foreigner, For me, the core of the appeal of Japanese music is the intelligence, discipline and spooky intensity of its art-bands.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n69/ai_9205686 (1488 words)

	UMN: Asian Languages and Literature: Faculty: Mark Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japanese intellectual history, Media in Japan (print, phonograph, film, radio), Japanese popular music history, the colonial and postcolonial in E. Asia, Japanese Masculinities, E. Asian neo-conservatism, melodrama, Meiji period literature, Critical theory.
		The Phonograph in Japan: Popular Music, Empire, and Identity.
		Associate Editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Japanese Popular Culture, author of fifty two entries on Japanese popular music, Routledge, New York, 2002.
	www.all.umn.edu /faculty/anderson.htm (236 words)

	Japanese Music Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I don't have cable at my apartment (cable is not very popular in Japan and is probably not even available in my part of the city), so this page is about music on the basic broadcast channels.
		The pretty young girl in the center of the TV photos collage from the feature page December 3rd, 1996, Namie Amuro; may very well be the most popular singer in Japan at this time.
		It is very common for Japanese popular music to have English titles and a few English lines thrown in.
	home.att.net /~chazpat/Chaz_in_Japan/JMTV.html (818 words)

	An American Tean Discovers Japanese Pop
		Being knowledgeable about pop music -- the creators of it and their musical creations alike -- is one way to maintain popularity among friends.
		She has the ability to reach out to different people of different ages with her music and maintain her popularity in the music industry.
		However, the two music cultures aren't completely different; in both the US and Japan, the teen scene is taking over the industry.
	www.frugalfun.com /jpop.html (1285 words)

	Session 92 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although popular culture still tends to flow from Japan to other parts of Asia, the reverse direction is slowly gaining momentum, particularly among youth.
		Asian popular culture captures the attention of many younger people in Japan, as Japanese popular culture often does with other Asian youth.
		For the first time, Japanese youth have developed a sense of coevalness with youth in other parts of Asia through popular culture, which is admittedly highly commercialized and media-driven.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1999abst/japan/j-92.htm (894 words)

	Songs about Japanese dolls
		Japanese "plots" for comic and light romantic songs abounded from the mid-1880s to the 1920s.
		It is a story set entirely in Japan, though one of the heroines is English on her mother's side, and it involves a double romance set against the military ambitions of Japan in the East.
		The plot involved the clash of cultures, with British sailors and ladies visiting a Japanese tea-house run by a Chinaman assisted by a young French woman.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/jdollwestern/music/index.html (764 words)

	Popular Japanese Music on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Find popular japanese music and more at Lycos Search.
		Read about popular japanese music in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
		Japanese music - Find and compare features and specs from the best shops through Kelkoo UK.
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/popular_japanese_music.html (355 words)

	Not East Not West, Not Old Not New: Trends and Genres in Japanese Popular Music - James Stanlaw
		KIDS Radio, in Aoyama, Japan, was not a full-fledged professional station and was certainly not the famous FEN (Far East Network) broadcast by the U.S. armed forces and listened to everyone to catch the latest hits from America.
		The station name presumably was based on the America custom of assigning K-prefaced call letters to broadcasting transmitters west of the Mississippi.
		The music played was a 1960s Southern California sound; some of the songs were unabashed copies of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and other similar types of American music, altered in only a minor way.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1989/november/Sa16527.htm (306 words)

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