Hiromu Nagahara – Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan*s Pop Era and Its Discontents

Author: Hiromu Nagahara

Emerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan’s transformation into a postwar middle-class society.

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