Yuniya Kawamura

Fashioning Japanese Subcultures (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally.

Geographically and stylistically defined, subcultures such as Lolita in Harajuku, Gyaru and Gyaru-o in Shibuya, Age-jo in Shinjuku, and Mori Girl in Kouenji, reflect the affiliation and identities of their members, and have often blurred the boundary between professionals and amateurs for models, photographers, merchandisers and designers.

Based on insightful ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, Fashioning Japanese Subcultures is the first theoretical and analytical study on Japan's contemporary youth subcultures and their stylistic expressions. It is essential reading for students, scholars and anyone interested in fashion, sociology and subcultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857852151
• Artikelnr.: 39477365

Autorenporträt

Yuniya Kawamura is Professor of Sociology at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Sate University of New York, USA. She is the author of four other Bloomsbury Visual Arts publications: Sneakers (2016), Fashion-ology (2023), Doing Research in Fashion and Dress (2020), and Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Entertainment (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables Part I: Introduction 1. Understanding
Subcultural Studies 2. Placing Tokyo on the Fashion Map: A Brief History 3.
Japanese Youth in a Changing Society Part II: Geographically and
Stylistically Defined Japanese Subcultures: Past and Present 4. Shibuya:
The Youth in Outspoken Rebellion 5. Harajuku: The Youth in Silent Rebellion
6. Akihabara and Ikebukuro: Costume as Aspirations of Identity and
Entertainment 7. Shinjuku and Koenji: Expressing Beliefs and State of Mind
8. The Cultivation of New Aesthetics and Professional Categories Part III:
Decentralization, Diversification, and Globalization 10: Japanese
Subcultural Fashion in Anime and Manga 11: Virtual Neotribes Inspired by
Japanese Subcultural Aesthetics 12: Japanese Youth Subcultures from
Neofeminist and Cyberfeminist Perspectives Conclusion Appendix Notes
Bibliography Index