Bell

Cabral

Carey

Castro

de Carvalho

Draper

Keightley

Maeda

Martin Roberts

Masterson

McGowan

Reynolds

Rosenberg

Yoshimoto

Popular Music

English

Roberts, Martin

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‘A new stereophonic sound spectacular’: Shibuya-kei as transnational soundscape

AbstractThis paper focuses on Shibuya-kei, a style of independent popular music that emerged in Japan in the late 1980s and which has been influential in the popularisation of J-pop worldwide. Although usually treated as a uniquely Japanese musical genre, Shibuya-kei was from its inception defined by an ostentatious internationalism, fusing jazz, easy listening and bossa nova with British, American and French retro-pop styles. Tracing the international itineraries of Shibuya-kei musicians and the role of Western musicians and labels in promoting it outside Japan, this paper characterises Shibuya-kei not as just another J-pop genre but as a transnational soundscape, a collaborative project produced by a network of musicians circulating between Japan and the UK, the US, France, Germany, Spain and Brazil. As such, the paper suggests, it requires us to rethink the place of the national in relation to popular music.</jats:p

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‘A new stereophonic sound spectacular’: Shibuya-kei as transnational soundscape

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