City Pop: a History: How the Japanese Airwaves were conquered

Описание: 18:48 big brain fart and misprounced "Ohtaki"
Ironically, my next big video essay is on Eiichi Ohtaki. It comes out around the end of 2022, so stay tuned!

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This is a brief exploration into City Pop history and context, a genre that has (not so) recently exploded in popularity online. Compilations of this elusive music are, after decades, finally making their way into local record shops in the West. This video is kind of a companion piece to last months History of Shibuya-Kei.

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I'm a big fan of Swiss typography, so I wanted to make a lot of adaptations of these styles and classical pieces through my editing/motion graphics. If you would like to learn more, check out Armin Hofmann, Emil Rude, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Max Bill and Otl Aicher.

THANKS TO

@Blush_Carousel - For the amazing sound and music made for this channel!
@japan2point0 Podcast! Check out their work for discussion on underground and obscure J-subcultures
@Comablu - For the fantastic channel artwork!

Intermediality and the discursive construction of popular music genres: the case of 'Japanese City Pop'
https://www.academia.edu/34512419/Int...

Tokyo Night Fever : A study of English code-switching in Japanese 1970s & 1980s city pop
https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/...

TOP 100 CITY POP ALBUMS
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/rocket...

50 MORE CITY POP ALBUMS TO CHECK OUT
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/NS2/fa...