Shuhei Hosokawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shuhei Hosokawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shuhei |
| FAMILY NAME | Hosokawa |
| SIGNATURE | HOSOKAWA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Memory of Toru Mitsui (1940-2023)
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The Noise Abatement Campaign in Industrializing Japan, 1923–37
Drawing on Karin Bijsterveld’s triple definition of noise as ownership, political responsibility, and causal responsibility, this article traces how modern Japan problematized noise, and how noise represented both the aspirational discourse of Western civilization and the experiential nuisance accompanying rapid changes in living conditions in 1920s Japan. Primarily based on newspaper archives, the analysis will approach the problematic of noise …
On the Fetish Character of Sound and the Progression of Technology: Theorizing Japanese Audiophiles
This chapter explores the 'personal emotional investments' of Japanese audiophiles from historical and cultural points of view, as there are no clear boundaries between audiophiles and casual stereo consumers. It expresses that it is not sufficient to be an audiophile in a similar way as owning a large collection of vinyl does not automatically lead to self-recognition as a record collector. The chapter begins with a historical background of Japa…
Strictly Ballroom: The Rumba in Pre-World War Two Japan
Hosokawa begins this issue with a detailed documentation of the rumba's evolution in 1930s Japan. Through comprehensive empirical research, Hosokawa is able to draw out the sociological and nationalistic implications the rumba held for Japanese people of the time
East of Honolulu: Hawaiian Music In Japan From the 1920s to the 1940s
This article analyses the influence of Hawaiian music in Japan from its introduction in the 1920s until the official suppression of the form during World War Two. It attempts to identify the ways in which styles of Hawaiian music were 'naturalised', ie adapted and integrated into an emergent Japanese vernacular, and the extent to which this 'naturalisation' was dependent on the role of Hawaiian born Japanese and thus Japan's 'privileged' access t…
音楽 Ongaku, Onkyō /Music, Sound
音楽 Ongaku, Onkyō/Music, Sound Hosokawa Shūhei (bio) Introduction Ongaku (music) is a word that underwent a great transformation in the process of modernization. This article will illustrate a lexical history of this word in order to grasp how the conceptualization of what the British ethnomusicologist John Blacking has termed “humanly organized sound” differed between pre-modern and modern Japan. The word consists of two characters, 音 (on or oto,…
A importância histórico-cultural dos imigrantes Nikkeis no Brasil
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Journal Article Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization Get access Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization, by Ian Condry. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, 249 pp., $79.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-3876-9), $22.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-3892-0) Shūhei HOSOKAWA Shūhei HOSOKAWA International Research Center for Japanese Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Toru Mitsui goes into retirement
For the readers of Popular Music, the name of Toru Mitsui is associated with the 'Booklist', a column he was in charge of from 1989 to 2002. For many members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the meeting he organised in Kanazawa in 1997 is unforgettable. For scholars and students interested in Japanese popular music, his numerous articles in English are the first references to be read. Last March (2005) Professor Mi…
Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora
The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora
Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, the essays in Searching for Home Abroad rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national ide…
Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
Singing contests in the ethnic enclosure of the post-war Japanese-Brazilian community
This article examines the historical development and social organization of the amateur singing contests known as nodojiman among Japanese‐Brazilians, looking at how they contributed to the forging of Japanese‐Brazilian identity in the post‐war era, precisely the time at which Japanese immigrants realized that their residence in Brazil would be permanent. The singing contests operated within a highly structured hierarchical network, which linked …
'Salsa No Tiene Frontera': Orquesta De La Luz and the Globalization of Popular Music
This article discusses key dynamics in the globalization of popular music, more specifically the interplay between technology, social and commercial structure, and meaningful sound forms. It analyses Orquesta de la Luz, an all-Japanese salsa band, as an example of the transgression of ethnic, geographical, linguistic and national boundaries of Latin American music. The band demonstrated the intertwined nature of the global and the local, in addit…
Nationalizing Chō‐Chō‐San: The signification of ‘Butterfly singers’ in a Japanese‐Brazilian community
Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
In search of the sound of empire: Tanabe Hisao and the foundation of Japanese ethnomusicology
1998). In search of the sound of empire: Tanabe Hisao and the foundation of Japanese ethnomusicology. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 5-19
La manipulation maudite: Rigoletto
The gelato of light
The walkman effect
The walkman - a cassette recorder for headphone listening. This gadget, originally invented and marketed by Sony in the spring of 1980 in Japan, and soon exported, has become known throughout the West, however awkward its Japanese-made English may sound. As its use has proliferated, so have the arguments about its effects. One example, a report in Nouvel Observateur, was cited by Philippe Sollers (Sollers 1981, p. 50). The interviewer, apparently…
Expressando-se na língua do antípoda: Fantasia nipo-brasileira acerca da origem das línguas
The walkman effect
The walkman - a cassette recorder for headphone listening. This gadget, originally invented and marketed by Sony in the spring of 1980 in Japan, and soon exported, has become known throughout the West, however awkward its Japanese-made English may sound. As its use has proliferated, so have the arguments about its effects. One example, a report in Nouvel Observateur, was cited by Philippe Sollers (Sollers 1981, p. 50). The interviewer, apparently…
East of Honolulu: Hawaiian Music In Japan From the 1920s to the 1940s
This article analyses the influence of Hawaiian music in Japan from its introduction in the 1920s until the official suppression of the form during World War Two. It attempts to identify the ways in which styles of Hawaiian music were 'naturalised', ie adapted and integrated into an emergent Japanese vernacular, and the extent to which this 'naturalisation' was dependent on the role of Hawaiian born Japanese and thus Japan's 'privileged' access t…
Nationalizing Chō‐Chō‐San: The signification of ‘Butterfly singers’ in a Japanese‐Brazilian community
In search of the sound of empire: Tanabe Hisao and the foundation of Japanese ethnomusicology
1998). In search of the sound of empire: Tanabe Hisao and the foundation of Japanese ethnomusicology. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 5-19
Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
Toru Mitsui goes into retirement
For the readers of Popular Music, the name of Toru Mitsui is associated with the 'Booklist', a column he was in charge of from 1989 to 2002. For many members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the meeting he organised in Kanazawa in 1997 is unforgettable. For scholars and students interested in Japanese popular music, his numerous articles in English are the first references to be read. Last March (2005) Professor Mi…
Singing contests in the ethnic enclosure of the post-war Japanese-Brazilian community
This article examines the historical development and social organization of the amateur singing contests known as nodojiman among Japanese‐Brazilians, looking at how they contributed to the forging of Japanese‐Brazilian identity in the post‐war era, precisely the time at which Japanese immigrants realized that their residence in Brazil would be permanent. The singing contests operated within a highly structured hierarchical network, which linked …
Expressando-se na língua do antípoda: Fantasia nipo-brasileira acerca da origem das línguas
The walkman effect
The walkman - a cassette recorder for headphone listening. This gadget, originally invented and marketed by Sony in the spring of 1980 in Japan, and soon exported, has become known throughout the West, however awkward its Japanese-made English may sound. As its use has proliferated, so have the arguments about its effects. One example, a report in Nouvel Observateur, was cited by Philippe Sollers (Sollers 1981, p. 50). The interviewer, apparently…
The gelato of light
La manipulation maudite: Rigoletto
In search of the sound of empire: Tanabe Hisao and the foundation of Japanese ethnomusicology
1998). In search of the sound of empire: Tanabe Hisao and the foundation of Japanese ethnomusicology. Japanese Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 5-19
'Salsa No Tiene Frontera': Orquesta De La Luz and the Globalization of Popular Music
This article discusses key dynamics in the globalization of popular music, more specifically the interplay between technology, social and commercial structure, and meaningful sound forms. It analyses Orquesta de la Luz, an all-Japanese salsa band, as an example of the transgression of ethnic, geographical, linguistic and national boundaries of Latin American music. The band demonstrated the intertwined nature of the global and the local, in addit…
Nationalizing Chō‐Chō‐San: The signification of ‘Butterfly singers’ in a Japanese‐Brazilian community
Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
Singing contests in the ethnic enclosure of the post-war Japanese-Brazilian community
This article examines the historical development and social organization of the amateur singing contests known as nodojiman among Japanese‐Brazilians, looking at how they contributed to the forging of Japanese‐Brazilian identity in the post‐war era, precisely the time at which Japanese immigrants realized that their residence in Brazil would be permanent. The singing contests operated within a highly structured hierarchical network, which linked …
Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, the essays in Searching for Home Abroad rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national ide…
Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora
The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora
Toru Mitsui goes into retirement
For the readers of Popular Music, the name of Toru Mitsui is associated with the 'Booklist', a column he was in charge of from 1989 to 2002. For many members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the meeting he organised in Kanazawa in 1997 is unforgettable. For scholars and students interested in Japanese popular music, his numerous articles in English are the first references to be read. Last March (2005) Professor Mi…
A importância histórico-cultural dos imigrantes Nikkeis no Brasil
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Journal Article Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization Get access Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization, by Ian Condry. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, 249 pp., $79.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-3876-9), $22.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-3892-0) Shūhei HOSOKAWA Shūhei HOSOKAWA International Research Center for Japanese Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
音楽 Ongaku, Onkyō /Music, Sound
音楽 Ongaku, Onkyō/Music, Sound Hosokawa Shūhei (bio) Introduction Ongaku (music) is a word that underwent a great transformation in the process of modernization. This article will illustrate a lexical history of this word in order to grasp how the conceptualization of what the British ethnomusicologist John Blacking has termed “humanly organized sound” differed between pre-modern and modern Japan. The word consists of two characters, 音 (on or oto,…
Strictly Ballroom: The Rumba in Pre-World War Two Japan
Hosokawa begins this issue with a detailed documentation of the rumba's evolution in 1930s Japan. Through comprehensive empirical research, Hosokawa is able to draw out the sociological and nationalistic implications the rumba held for Japanese people of the time
East of Honolulu: Hawaiian Music In Japan From the 1920s to the 1940s
This article analyses the influence of Hawaiian music in Japan from its introduction in the 1920s until the official suppression of the form during World War Two. It attempts to identify the ways in which styles of Hawaiian music were 'naturalised', ie adapted and integrated into an emergent Japanese vernacular, and the extent to which this 'naturalisation' was dependent on the role of Hawaiian born Japanese and thus Japan's 'privileged' access t…
On the Fetish Character of Sound and the Progression of Technology: Theorizing Japanese Audiophiles
This chapter explores the 'personal emotional investments' of Japanese audiophiles from historical and cultural points of view, as there are no clear boundaries between audiophiles and casual stereo consumers. It expresses that it is not sufficient to be an audiophile in a similar way as owning a large collection of vinyl does not automatically lead to self-recognition as a record collector. The chapter begins with a historical background of Japa…
The Noise Abatement Campaign in Industrializing Japan, 1923–37
Drawing on Karin Bijsterveld’s triple definition of noise as ownership, political responsibility, and causal responsibility, this article traces how modern Japan problematized noise, and how noise represented both the aspirational discourse of Western civilization and the experiential nuisance accompanying rapid changes in living conditions in 1920s Japan. Primarily based on newspaper archives, the analysis will approach the problematic of noise …
In Memory of Toru Mitsui (1940-2023)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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