UCLA Conference on Japanese Popular Music: March 3

[Bourdaghs, Michael]

Greetings to all (and apologies for cross-postings):

Those of you in Southern California (or passing through on the way to AAS)
may be interested in the Nikkei Bruin Conference on Japanese Popular Music,
to be held here at UCLA on Wednesday, March 3.  A list of presenters and
paper titles is appended below.  The conference is open to UCLA faculty and
students, as well as to invited guests.  Anyone interested in attending
should contact me so that we can include you on the list of invitees
(bourdagh at humnet.ucla.edu). 

Best,

Michael Bourdaghs

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NIKKEI BRUIN CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies

Wednesday, March 3, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room

Panel One:  Technologies of Distribution and Reproduction in Japanese
Popular Music (10:00 a.m.)

E. Taylor Atkins (Northern Illinois University):  "Inventing Jazztowns and
Internationalizing Local Identities in Japan"  
Michael K. Bourdaghs (UCLA):  "Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the
'Scandal' of Popular Music in Early Postwar Japan" 
Michael Molasky (University of Minnesota):  "Jazu kissa: Situating Japan's
Jazz Cafes in Postwar Cultural History" 
Discusant:  Robert Walser (UCLA)

Panel Two:  Unreal Reality:  Historicity and the Construction of
Authenticity in Japanese Popular Music (1:30 p.m.)

Loren Kajikawa (UCLA):  "Cornelius's 'Point of View': Perspectives on
Globalization, Techno-Orientalism, and Cyborg Fantasy"
Mark Anderson (University of Minnesota):  "Enka and Historicity"
Christine R. Yano (University of Hawai`I):  "Misora Hibari And The
Controversies Of Collective Memory In Contemporary Japan"
Discussant:  Susan McClary (UCLA)