Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour

Food, Gender, Rock and Roll

Prof Brooke McCorkle Okazaki (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4794-8 (ISBN)

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Shonen Knife—an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan—cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band’s charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. McCorkle Okazaki co-authored the book Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema (2018) with Sean Rhoads. In it, they explore the various ways Japanese monster movies address contemporary ecological concerns. Thanks to a Japan Foundation Fellowship, McCorkle Okazaki is currently completing her next book, Searching for Wagner in Japan.

List of Images and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Itadakimasu! (Let’s Eat!)
1. Girl Bands and Josei Rock, 1950s–1980s
2. Food, Gender, and Music in Postwar Japan
3. Shonen Knife’s Songs in the Key of Food
4. Konnichiwa!: An Introduction to Happy Hour (1998) and its Cover Art
5. Happy Hour: Food, Music, and Transnational Flow
6. The Delicious Banality of “Banana Chips”
7. Sweet Candy Power: Shonen Knife and Their Josei Rock Legacy
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3 Japan
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Gewicht	184 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-5013-4794-2 / 1501347942
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-4794-8 / 9781501347948
Zustand	Neuware