Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop

Michael Bourdaghs

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Paper, 304 pages, 13 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-15875-6
$27.50 / £19.00

February, 2012
Cloth, 304 pages, 13 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-15874-9
$89.50 / £62.00

"Michael K. Bourdaghs’s compellingly readable Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon imaginatively conceives an original account of how Japan, in the postwar and Cold War years, broke with a historical narrative centered on the United States military occupation and Japan's subsequent confinement within the American imperium to enter the actual world. Bourdaghs persuasively shows how Japan, through the production of diverse forms of popular music and the formation of its audiences, engaged a genuinely global geopolitical aesthetics, shaping it and being shaped by it, that successfully left behind the narrow precinct of America's Japan for the new world announced by J-Pop." — Harry Harootunian, Duke University, author of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan

Related Subjects

• East Asian Studies
• Popular Culture

Series

• Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

About the Author

Michael K. Bourdaghs is associate professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism and a translation editor of Natsume Sōseki’s Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings and Kamei Hideo’s Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature.

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