Living in Japan. Writes about post-war Japanese pop music and fashion, especially 1955-70. University teacher. Organizer of Teachers Helping Teachers.
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Joined April 2009
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My research is available on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…'?utm_source=twitter&rgutm_meta1=eHNsLWJrNVk0N2NPVm9SM21SQmJqajRGMHNrQVg1Ly9jNHVKbGlISDVqRmlGckphWUU4WmlZOWZsQkdSYmlOY3o1by84Sytoa3kxMlkwVnRRTnBjb2hsVEV3PT0%3D
My research is available on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
New presentation comparing early 1960s music variety TV shows in Japan and the UK. Free access as always. researchgate.net/publication…
ALT Presentation at Waseda University on Japanese (and British and American) Music TV programs from the early 1960s
Published today in anticipation of NHK's April-September daily serialized morning drama (Asadora) about the wife of Yanase Takashi, the creator of the children's character "Anpanman." Academic version is available through a simple Google keyword search.
japan-forward.com/beyond-anp…
Link to a new 50-slide, 150-curated image PowerPoint comparing the careers of two of the most important artists in Showa cultural history, Kasagi Shizuko and Mizunoe Takiko. drive.google.com/file/d/1UPp… – at Otsu-shi, Shiga
My research is available on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
The full life story of Takashi Yanase (Anpanman) will be part of the upcoming Asadora Anpan, and is explored in (a) the academic article and (b) detailed powerpoint below.
(a) drive.google.com/file/d/1dmP…
(b)
drive.google.com/file/d/1Tug…
Two years after submission, my article on cross-dressing entertainment pioneer,Mizunoe Takiko-the first ever in English- is published in Dean Conrad and Sayuri Hirano -Gender Fluidity in Japanese Art and Culture). kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-02-97…
deanconrad.com/writing/japan…
My co-authored article on Kasagi Shizuko and the NHK morning drama (asadora) "Boogie Woogie" is available with free access in the 2024 Journal of the Research Institute for International Society and Culture, Ryukoku University, pages 231-253 scri.rec.ryukoku.ac.jp/resul…
Photos relating to my research and Japan Times article on Kasagi Shizuko, the subject of the new NHK morning drama, "Tokyo Boogie Woogie." See japantimes.co.jp/culture/202…
Interview with Kitayama Osamu, ex Folk Crusaders and one of the seminal figures in Japanese popular music culture. Kitayama was the lyricist for some of the greatest folk songs to come out of post-war Japan, including "あの素晴しい愛をもう一度" (Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido).
In 2019 I wrote the first ever academic article in English on the early life of Johnny Kitagawa. While it did not focus on the scandals, it did confirm that he was guilty of predatory behavior. It is a free access article at Research Gate as is this ppt. drive.google.com/file/d/10pA…
Alisa Freedman's "Introducing Japanese Popular Culture" has a 2nd edition. My contribution is "Electrifying the Japanese Teenager Across Generations," the story of the impact of the electric guitar on Japanese youth from the late 1950s.
Harry Belafonte had an outsize impact on the development of (western) folk music in Japan. See his 1960 Tokyo concert and a link to my article on college folk.
1960 Tokyo Concert: youtube.com/watch?v=SnswQxvf…
Article on the "College Folk" boom in Japan: researchgate.net/publication…
Just a screenshot of my YouTube history with no captions, but it's 54 years worth of baby-boom and women's history in one amazing image.#judycollins
A highly unconventional "Best of #JeffBeck" list
Moon River youtube.com/watch?v=SKIFrPn0…
People Get Ready youtube.com/watch?v=CoyvsYd5…
Caroline No. youtube.com/watch?v=ucWMxEOX…
Don't talk youtube.com/watch?v=lxXdC0fi…
How High the Moon (Live with Imelda May). youtube.com/watch?v=P9H0j17X…
Yūzō Kayama (加山 雄三) gave his last public performance on Kohaku on the 31st. For his impact on 1960s pop and his little known role as Japan's first singer songwriter, see my article on the Ventures in Japan.
researchgate.net/publication…
