Japrocksampler by Julian Cope

£12.99

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Year: 2008

Format: Softcover

Edition: First

Condition: New

Julian Cope - musician and musicologist and one-time frontman of The Teardrop Explodes, explores the history of Western music's arrival on Japanese shores after World War Two, and the mayhem that ensued. From chromatic instrumental pop covers of The Shadows' songs to the resurrection of Dylan-inspired Rokyoku folk storytelling, nowhere has the continual metamorphosis of rock'n'roll been more fascinating or original than in Japan. JAPROCKSAMPLER is an exploration of the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock'n'roll renegades of the 1960s and '70s. It tells the tale of key artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking, and rounds up the seminal Japrock albums.

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