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Hip-hop Japan : rap and the paths of cultural globalization.
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ISBN: 0822338769 9780822338765 0822338920 9780822338925 9780822338765 9780822338925 Year: 2006 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times
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ISBN: 1282355961 9786612355967 0520924622 9780520924628 9781282355965 0520222733 9780520222731 9780520260085 0520260082 6612355964 Year: 2006 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous photographs from this era to capture the spirit, textures, and language of a time when the media reached all classes, connecting the rural social order to urban mores. Employing the concept of montage as a metaphor that informed the organization of Japanese mass culture during the 1920's and 1930's, Silverberg challenges the erasure of Japanese colonialism and its legacies. She evokes vivid images from daily life during the 1920's and 1930's, including details about food, housing, fashion, modes of popular entertainment, and attitudes toward sexuality. Her innovative study demonstrates how new public spaces, new relationships within the family, and an ironic sensibility expressed the attitude of Japanese consumers who identified with the modern as providing a cosmopolitan break from tradition at the same time that they mobilized for war.

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