Big In Japan

Author : Jennifer Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984880164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big in Japan written by Jennifer Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck Cooper is Texan, obese, and invisible to his colleagues. Serendipity lands him in Japan, right in the middle of a sumo match. As his life takes a new turn in a country where being big can mean fame and fortune, Buck must embark on the most dangerous, yet adventurous ride of his lifeNto find the ultimate meaning of love and acceptance.

Author : M. Thomas Gammarino
Publisher : Chin Music Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1634059573
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big in Japan written by M. Thomas Gammarino and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From Susie Wong to Madame Butterfly to Miss Saigon: you might think that we've had enough of American men adventuring, scoring, and coming undone in the Far East. But you'd be wrong. Gammarino's Big in Japan is a shrewd and lively book, sharp-eyed and unsparing in its account of a young American's good and very bad moments overseas. The writing is wired and the ultimate judgement is merciless. It's seductive and it's devastating.” —PF Kluge, author of Eddie and the Cruisers and Gone Tomorrow While playing to lackluster crowds in their hometown of Philadelphia, progressive rock band Agenbite clings to the comforting half-truth that they're doing better in Japan. When their manager agrees to send them over on a shoestring tour, though, they're swiftly forced to give up their illusions and return stateside. All but one of them, that is. Brain Tedesco, the band's obsessive-compulsive nerve center, has fallen in love with a part-time sex worker - the first woman ever to have touched him - and his illusions have only just begun. What ensues is a gritty coming-of-age tale in which Brain, intent on achieving some kind of transcendence, paradoxically (or not so paradoxically) descends into the Hungry Ghost realm of Tokyo’s underworld. He becomes, in effect, a gaki - the insatiable creature of Buddhist cosmology - and must learn how to live even as his outsize desires threaten to engulf him. By turns compassionate and ruthless, erotic and grotesque, riotously serious and deadly funny, Big in Japan is a sparking, gut-wrenching, face-melting debut novel.

Author : Corcoro Books
Publisher : DH Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1932897445
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Rock Catwalk written by Corcoro Books and published by DH Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual Kei refers to a Japanese pop music movement characterized by eccentric, flamboyant looks, striking make-up, unusual hair styles and elaborate costumes coupled with androgynous aesthetics. Tokyo Rock Catwalk is the first ever book to fully introduce this made-in-Japan pop culture to an overseas audience. Along with stunning full-color pinup pics and photos from some of the most exciting live performances, members of Visual Kei bands and some of their most loyal fans talk about where this phenomenon came from, how it fits into Japanese society, and how the West is waking up to this outrageous movement.

Author : Hiromu Nagahara
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971698
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Boogie-Woogie written by Hiromu Nagahara and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Toru Mitsui
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501363875
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music in Japan written by Toru Mitsui and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 new trend and J-Pop--Popular Music in Japan is a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of popular music in Japan. In eight revised and updated essays written in English by renowned Japanese scholar Toru Mitsui, this book tells the story of popular music in Japan since the late 19th century when Japan began positively embracing the West.

Author : Peter Tieryas
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857665340
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States of Japan written by Peter Tieryas and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “interesting and excited to read” spiritual sequel to The Man in The High Castle focuses on the New Japanese Empire—from an acclaimed author and essayist (io9) Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan’s conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons—a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what the world might be like if the United States had won the war instead. Captain Beniko Ishimura’s job is to censor video games, and he’s tasked with getting to the bottom of this disturbing new development. But Ishimura’s hiding something . . . He’s slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive videogame’s origins are even more controversial and dangerous than the censors originally suspected. Part detective story, part brutal alternate history, United States of Japan is a stunning successor to Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. File under: Science Fiction [ Gamechanger | Area #11 | Robot Wars | Strike Back the Empire ]

Author : Jennifer Griffith
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781973479123
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big in Japan written by Jennifer Griffith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beverly Hills Ninja meets sumo! At 300+ pounds, good-guy Buck Cooper is nobody in Texas. Not at work, not in love, not anywhere. Then, a fluke trip to Japan and tickets to a sumo match change Buck

Author : Steve Ryfle
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1550223488
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's Favorite Mon-star written by Steve Ryfle and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bigger, badder, and more durable than Hollywood's greatest action heroes, Godzilla emerged from the mushroom cloud of an H-bomb test in 1954 to trample Tokyo. More than 40 years later, he reigns as the undisputed monarch of movie monsters, with legions of fans spanning several generations and countless international boundaries.

Author : Shane Homan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335229867
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Access All Eras: Tribute Bands and Global Pop Culture written by Shane Homan and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-09-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Björn Again to the Illegal Eagles, from Black Stabbath to the Essex Pistols and the Bootleg Beatles, tribute bands comprise a significant sector of many national music scenes. Access All Eras is the first book to examine the tribute and cover band phenomenon and its place within the global popular music industry. The ability of tributes to reinforce or challenge the very idea of stardom is explored through studies of imitations of various iconic pop and rock performers, including Elvis, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, ABBA and the Beach Boys. Analysis of such tribute acts can tell us much about how the meanings of performers and performance circulate globally, and are resisted or accommodated by local music cultures in the commercialisation of live and recorded memories. The book also looks at music industry attitudes towards imitation, including copyright issues and the use of multimedia performance techniques to deliver the ‘authentic’ tribute experience. It offers an insight into how understandings of nostalgia and celebrity circulate within contemporary society and are connected with other media and leisure industries. Access All Eras is key reading for students in popular music, media studies, cultural studies, arts, music, sociology, performing arts and popular culture studies.

Author : David Gordon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439159777
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Serialist written by David Gordon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DARK AND STYLISH PAGE-TURNER FROM A BOLD NEW VOICE IN FICTION Harry Bloch is a struggling writer who pumps out pulpy serial novels—from vampire books to detective stories—under various pseudonyms. But his life begins to imitate his fiction when he agrees to ghostwrite the memoir of Darian Clay, New York City’s infamous Photo Killer. Soon, three young women turn up dead, each one murdered in the Photo Killer’s gruesome signature style, and Harry must play detective in a real-life murder plot as he struggles to avoid becoming the killer’s next victim. Witty, irreverent, and original, The Serialist is a love letter to books—from poetry to pornography—and proof that truth really can be stranger than fiction.