Minzoku madness : hip hop and Japanese national subjectivity

• 資料種別: 図書
• タイトル: Minzoku madness : hip hop and Japanese national subjectivity
• 著者・編者: by David Z. Morris.
• 著者標目: Morris, David Z.
• 出版事項: Ann Arbor, MI : UMI
• 出版年月日等: [2010]
• 出版年（W3CDTF）: 2010
• 数量: 2, vi, 258 pages
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 授与機関名: The University of Iowa
• 授与年月日（W3CDTF）: 2010
• 学位: Ph.D.
• 出版地（国名コード）: US
• 本文の言語コード: eng
• 表現種別: text
• 機器種別: unmediated
• キャリア種別: volume
• 件名標目: Hip-hop--Japan--Influence.; Social change--Japan.; Popular music--Japan--African American influences.; Popular music--Japan--History and criticism.
• NDLC: KD286
• 対象利用者: 一般
• 一般注記: Authorized facsimile, made from the microfilm master copy of the original dissertation or master thesis published by UMI.; UMI number: 3409808.
• 資料の内容に関する注記: Such an articulation shows the powerful role of Japanese desire, particularly on the part of youth, for the America represented by popular music. Most recently, hip hop has shown the continued attraction African-American music holds for Japanese people, and youth in particular. Hip hop reached Japan in the early 1980s and entered the mainstream with East End X Yuri's million-selling pop-rap singles of the mid-1990s. Its prominence continues to this day, in many cases embodied in Japanese artists who imitate African-American styles and sounds wholesale. Such imitation has been roundly criticized by international critics and commentators, condemned as contextless cultural theft and a testament to Japanese insensitivity on matters of race. In my study I examine a cadre of contemporary musicians who, while equally dedicated to hip hop, firmly resist such uncritical imitation of blackness, instead emphasizing their own unique musical and cultural innovations.; I argue that this transition from imitation to innovation mirrors a broader cultural shift away from widespread deference to authority and towards a greater openness to innovation and change, and is just one way that the work of Japan's underground hip hop artists resonates with the ongoing 'quiet revolution.' Hip hop has encountered a few particularly important ongoing social changes: that from a lifetime employment system to one increasingly characterized by temporary and part-time labor; from a self-declared homogenous society to a multicultural one; and, more generally, from one defined by elite emphasis on social compliance and loyalty to a wider acceptance of iconoclasm and individuality. It is tempting to classify this as the transition from an 'oppressive' system to a 'free' one - from bad to good. But there are complexities and ambivalence inherent in the emergent situation.; For example, while the new employment model provides much greater flexibility for individuals and frees them from the past tyranny of the corporate system, it also exposes them to much greater financial uncertainty. The rising sense of self-worth among minorities, for which hip hop is an important channel, simultaneously threatens to transform these identities into objectified fetishes. Individuality is not without its costs. Meanwhile, hip hop is also being deployed in ways that reinforce the old model of deference and authoritarianism, particularly by artists who promote revisionist histories and the revival of militarism. The significance of hip hop for social change derives from a long history of interaction between Japanese and African-American culture. This history resurfaces in hip hop recordings, as well as in the lifestyle of urban musicians and fans.; This dissertation follows the daily lives and viewpoints of hip hop artists in Tokyo and throughout Japan, from some of its most successful to those just starting their careers. It tracks their music-making processes and their practices of cultural adaptation, and places them within the larger context of Japanese society. It ultimately describes how an art form derided as imitative and derivative has come to reflect the very unique contours of the new soil to which it has been transplanted.
• 書誌注記: Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-258).
• 一次資料へのリンクURL: http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/558
• 所蔵機関: 国立国会図書館
• 請求記号: KD286-B74
• 連携機関・データベース: 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• 書誌ID（NDLBibID）: 024104070; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/024104070
• 目録規則: RDA
• 整理区分コード: 211

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