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Raising My Voice: Japanese Visual Kei and Musical (Self-)discovery
This chapter is an autoethnographic exploration of musical (self-)discovery through developments in 2000s digital culture, and how my fandom for the...
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Intersecting Race, Gender, and Sports: How Japanese News Media Depict Tennis Stars Naomi Osaka and Kei Nishikori
This chapter explores how leading Japanese print news media cover their top female and male tennis stars, Naomi Osaka and Kei Nishikori,...
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From Shōjo to Bangya(ru): Women and Visual Kei
This chapter explores the relationship between shōjo culture and the Japanese music subculture of Visual Kei—a flamboyant genre consumed primarily by...
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Free Love and Free Marriage: Chinese Writers’ Description and an American Missionary Woman’s Prescription in the 1920s
May Fourth Chinese intellectuals celebrated women’s free choice of partners as one of the Western notions closely tied to gender equality and...
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Introduction
The Hyper Japan Festival is probably the single largest Japan-themed event to take place in the United Kingdom. Established in 2010, it now takes...
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Introduction: Destabilizing Gender
“What is gender, how is it produced and reproduced, what are its possibilities?” asks gender theorist Judith Butler in Gender Trouble: Feminism and...
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“I’ll Create My Own Precedents”: Female Rakugo Performers on Tokyo’s Yose Stages
Rakugo is a Japanese stage art originating in the seventeenth century, and was initially popular with the lower classes. For the majority of its...
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Scarlett, an American Musical Made in Japan; or, How Japanese Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Integrated Musicals
Presenting Scarlett at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo in January 1970 was an epic event in the Japanese history of producing American musicals. Based...
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Conversations on Change: A Project About Women, Dance, and Aging
The authors, ages 57 and 61, reflect on the cross-cultural performance piece, Enmei (Long Life): A Dance and Aging Project as they compare...
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Laughing, Spanish Style: Moreto and Tirso de Molina in the Third Reich
In quantitative terms, the role of Spanish drama of the seventeenth century in the repertory of German theatres from 1933 until 1944 is important for...
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Hybrid Masculinities? Reflexive Accounts of Japanese Youth at University Josō Contests
In gender and sexuality studies, recent diversifications and changes in masculinities have garnered much attention. In particular, the concept of...
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Part III: The 2000s
This chapter traces forms of music culture that evolved over the 2000s, as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes shifted. It...
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Essay Manga: Japan’s Autobiographical Comics
This chapter explores the topic of essay manga, a genre of autobiographical comics in Japan. Its discussion first focuses on the rise of this genre...
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Music in the Making of Modern Japan Essays on Reception, Transformation and Cultural Flows
This volume explores the notion of “affective media” within and across different arts in Japan, with a primary focus on music, whether as standalone...
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Organizing Japan’s Gender Regime
This chapter expounds on Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity, how it is applicable to Japan, and what shape hegemonic masculinity takes there....
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From Dansō to Genderless: Mediating Queer Styles and Androgynous Bodies in Japan
This chapter explores androgynous bodies and styles in contemporary Japan through dansō (female-to-male crossdressing) and “genderless” (jendāresu)....
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Übungen für die Intonation
Die Betonung der Worte gehört zum Rhythmus der Sprache. In den folgenden Übungen werden Worte auf Rhythmen aus der Musik übertragen.
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Extra-mundane Communication
Extra-mundane refers to those instances when communication goes beyond the realm of intra-personal, interpersonal and mass communication to embrace...
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Creative Labour
In view of external and internal factors affecting the film industrial environment in Hong Kong in the 2010s, this chapter analyses the politics of...
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Classical Traditions and Internal Colonialism in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico: Text, Translation, and Notes on Three of Villerías’ Greek Epigrams.
This essay analyses three epigrams, that are among the only original compositions known to us so far written in ancient Greek in New Spain, composed...