Japanoise
Music at the Edge of Circulation
1st Edition
Published on 17. July 2013
304 pages
978-0-8223-9754-0 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States, David Novak traces the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise, an underground music genre combining distortion and electronic effects.
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David Novak is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Scenes of Liveness and Deadness 28
2. Sonic Maps of the Japanese Underground 64
3. Listening to Noise in Kansai 92
4. Genre Noise 117
5. Feedback, Subjectivity, and Performance 139
6. Japanoise and Technoculture 169
7. The Future of Cassette Culture 198
Epilogue: A Strange History 227
Notes 235
References 259
Index 279
Introduction 1
1. Scenes of Liveness and Deadness 28
2. Sonic Maps of the Japanese Underground 64
3. Listening to Noise in Kansai 92
4. Genre Noise 117
5. Feedback, Subjectivity, and Performance 139
6. Japanoise and Technoculture 169
7. The Future of Cassette Culture 198
Epilogue: A Strange History 227
Notes 235
References 259
Index 279
