UCLA Conference on Japanese Popular Music: March 3

[Thomas Lamarre]

Michael,

Looks great, wish I could attend, but we promised Alex that we'd take him to
San Diego zoo Wednesday.

Hope to see you, though.  will you be at the AAS?

Tom

> 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
> 
> ********
> 
> 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)
>