music

Keisuke Kuwata, a Perfect Response to the Japanese Rock Music Dispute

I was listening to the latest Keisuke Kuwata's cd "Musicman" on my way to my office. I am not a big fan of his, but this cd made me realize that he was one of the most important rock musicians in the Japanese rock music history. In early 1…

Pesto Paakin Mama

Yesterday I was listening to Seijin Noborikawa's (登川誠仁) CD "Howling Wolf" on my way to my office. Seijin Noborikawa, known as Seigua(誠小), is one of the most famous Shimauta(島唄), Okinawan folk songs, singers (http://goo.gl/v2pSU). H…

Moving Children

Recently I am learning English and becoming interested in people who are in between different cultures. I have read stories of drifters from Japan to foreign countries in the Edo era and of diplomats coming to Japan from Europe at the end …

“Enka” as a Invented Tradition

Eric Hobsbawm showed the fact that many of “traditions” which are widely believed to have a long history are invented in modern times in his book “The Invention of Tradition”. Yusuke Wajima applied Hobsbawm’s method to the Japanese “tradit…

Paul McCartney has his own “ideal”.

Recently I have been listening the songs by John Lennon. So that I wrote two entries about Paul and John. (id:yagian:20101217:1292538339, id:yagian:20101219:1292711184) Inamoto made track back about comparison between Paul and John to my e…