Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

Shonen Knife's Happy Hour (eBook, PDF)

Food, Gender, Rock and Roll

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Shonen Knife-an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan-cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501347979
• Artikelnr.: 60650524

Autorenporträt

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is an Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. USA. She specializes in opera of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, film music, and the music of modern Japan. In addition to numerous articles and Shonen Knife's Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll (2020), McCorkle Okazaki is the co-author of Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema (2018). In the 2019-2020 academic year, she received a Japan Foundation Fellowship to complete her monograph Searching for Wagner in Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Images and Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction:
Itadakimasu! (Let's Eat!) 1. Girl Bands and Josei Rock, 1950s-1980s 2.
Food, Gender, and Music in Postwar Japan 3. Shonen Knife's Songs in the Key
of Food 4. Konnichiwa!: An Introduction to Happy Hour (1998) and its Cover
Art 5. Happy Hour: Food, Music, and Transnational Flow 6. The Delicious
Banality of "Banana Chips" 7. Sweet Candy Power: Shonen Knife and Their
Josei Rock Legacy Notes Bibliography Discography Index