{"product_id":"9781953103154-japanthem-countercultural-experiences-cross-cultural-remixes","title":"Japanthem: Countercultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e “In this illuminating debut, Marshall offers an outsider’s look into Japanese culture via its music . Throughout, her sharp observations are interspersed with moving moments of introspection . This transportive work is a thrilling escape.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFulbright and mtvU sponsored scholar Jillian Marshall offers honest and often humorous vignettes that delve far beyond Western stereotypes of Japanese culture to portray a society’s deep relationship with music, and what it means to listen and understand as a cultural outsider.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing a decade of back-and-forth across the Pacific while researching her doctoral thesis in ethnomusicology, \u003cb\u003eJAPANTHEM\u003c\/b\u003e author Jillian Marshall reveals contemporary Japan through a prism of magic, serendipity, frustration, unique underground culture, learning life lessons the hard way, and an insatiable curiosity for the human spirit. The book’s twenty vignettes — including what it’s like to be subtly bullied by your Buddhist dance teacher, go to a secret rave in woods near Mt. Fuji, meet a pop star at a basement club while tipsy, and experience a nuclear disaster unfold by the minute — are based off first-hand experience, and illustrate music’s fascinating relationship to (Japanese) society with honesty, intelligence, and humor. \u003cb\u003eJAPANTHEM\u003c\/b\u003e offers a uniquely nuanced portrayal of life in the Land of the Rising Sun — while encouraging us to listen more deeply in (and to) Japan in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57300416627062,"sku":"9781953103154","price":8.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28569695.jpg?v=1771217897","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781953103154-japanthem-countercultural-experiences-cross-cultural-remixes","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}