Toru Mitsui

Biographic Data

ID3648436
NAMEToru Mitsui
GIVEN NAMESToru
FAMILY NAMEMitsui
SIGNATUREMITSUI T
AFFILIATIONStōru mitsui is Professor Emeritus of Musicology and English at Kanazawa University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Published Collections as the Sources of Ballad Tunes Sung by an Enthusiast in Japan

    Toru MitsuiARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2022Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article is in dialogue with a topic raised in the "Sound Reviews" section in the Winter 2009 issue of the Journal of American Folklore by Graham Blair. Blair points out that quite a few of the ballad tunes recorded on two CDs by Tōru Mitsui in 2006 were taken from American and British folk song anthologies that included written musical notation. This article traces the sources found in the early 1960s in Japan, and shows that for these balla…

  • Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West

    Toru MitsuiBOOKPopular Music in Japan2020

    Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka at the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit songs in the record industry in the years preceding the War, and ranging to the adoption of Western genres after the War the rise of Japanese folk and rock, domestic exoticism as a ne…

  • Domestic Exoticism: A recent trend in Japanese popular music

    Toru MitsuiARTICLEPerfect Beat2015

    Mitsui's article addresses the domestic self-exoticisation of Japanese popular music through the incorporation of elements of traditional main-island Japanese, Okinawan and/or Asian Pacific regional music. As Mitsui discusses, while related to both the international vogues for folk music (in the 1960&-70s) and world music (in the 1980&-90s), this tendency in Japanese music has been a distinctly local phenomenon which evidences both an introverted…

  • Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing

    Shuhei Hosokawa, Toru MitsuiBOOKKaraoke Around the World2005

  • Musicology, ethnomusicology and popular music studies: Two conferences in Japan in 2002

    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music2003

    The Musicological Society of Japan celebrated its fiftieth anniversary by holding an international congress on 2–4 November 2002 in Shizuoka, a city which is not far from Tokyo, whose skyline is backed by the imposing Mount Fuji. 470 people were registered as participants, out of whom about 100 were from abroad. The conference coincided with the International Convention of Street Performance in the same city

  • Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song

    Toru MitsuiREVIEWYearbook for Traditional Music2003

  • Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing

    Thom Gencarelli, Toru Mitsui et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2003

  • Booklist

    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music2001

    The aim of this annual Popular Music bibliography is to provide a record of recent books on popular music and to offer brief, sometimes critical guidance to them whenever possible. Coverage is restricted to books and some booklets (with the exception of important yearbooks and some special issues of journals), and includes revised editions as well as notable reissues. Omitted are translations of books previously published in English except those …

  • Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing

    Anne Allison, Toru Mitsui et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2000Cited by: 2

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music2000

    The aim of this annual Popular Music bibliography is to provide a record of recent books on popular music and to offer brief, sometimes critical guidance to them whenever possible. Coverage is restricted to books and some booklets (with the exception of important yearbooks and some special issues of journals) and includes revised editions as well as notable reissues. Omitted are translations of books previously published in English except those w…

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1999

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  • Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing

    Susan Lee, Toru Mitsui et al.ARTICLEAsian Music1999

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1998

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1997

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1996

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1995Cited by: 1

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1994Cited by: 1

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1993Cited by: 1

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  • Two further publications in English on popular music in Japan

    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1993

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1992Cited by: 1

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1991Cited by: 1

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    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1990Cited by: 1

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  • Popular music studies in Japan

    Open AccessToru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1988

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  • The search for Sweet Georgia Brown: A Case for Discographical Detection

    Open AccessPeter Ingham, Toru MitsuiARTICLEPopular Music1987References: 1

    In April 1961 the Beatles made their second trip to Hamburg, West Germany, to play a three-month engagement at the Top Ten Club. At this time the group comprised five members - John Lennon (rhythm guitar), Paul McCartney (rhythm guitar), George Harrison (lead guitar), Stuart Sutcliffe (bass guitar) and Pete Best (drums

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    Open AccessMonica Burdex, Frith et al.ARTICLEPopular Music1984

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