J-pop

J-pop (ジェーポップ, jēpoppu) (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as pops (ポップス, poppusu), is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced kayōkyoku ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene.[2]

Japanese rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s–1970s.[3] J-pop was further defined by new wave and crossover fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars.[4] Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s–1980s, and J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro)[5] and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s–2000s.

Japanese country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s–1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and Tomi Fujiyama, along with venues like Little Texas in Tokyo.[6][7] Japanese hip hop became mainstream with producer Nujabes during the 1990s–2000s, especially his work on Samurai Champloo,[8] and Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop.[9] In addition, Latin music, CCM, and gospel music have scenes within J-pop.[10][11]

  1. ^ Keizai, Kokusai & Zaidan, Kōryū (cont.) "Japan Spotlight: Economy, Culture & History, Volume 23". Page 24 (Ng Wai-ming: "The Rise of J-Pop in Asia and Its Impact"). Japan Economic Foundation & the University of California. 2004. Quote: "JAPANESE pop music is commonly I referred to as "J-pop", a term coined by Komuro Tetsuya, the "father of J-pop", in the early 1990s. The meaning of J-pop has never been clear. It was first limited to Euro-beat, the kind of dance music that Komuro produced. However, it was later also applied to many other kinds of popular music in the Japanese music chart, Oricon, including idol-pop, rhythm and blues (R&B), folk, soft rock, easy listening and sometimes even hip hop."
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  3. ^ 究極のビートルズ来日賞味法! ビートルズが日本に与えたもの (in Japanese). Oricon. 2006-06-21. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
  4. ^ "New Music" (in Japanese). Who.ne.jp. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved 2011-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) ()
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  8. ^ Ryan " (August 1, 2017). "How a Samurai Anime Made a Japanese Producer a Hip-Hop Household Name". DJBooth. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
  9. ^ Capitao, Brian (June 3, 2019). "How Anime Made Its Way Into Hip Hop". The Freeze with Tyler Mclaurin and Brian Capitao. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
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  11. ^ Minako, Waseda (2013). "Gospel Music in Japan: Transplantation and Localization of African American Religious Singing". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 45. Cambridge University Press (CUP): 187–213. doi:10.5921/yeartradmusi.45.2013.0187. ISSN 0740-1558. S2CID 192821070.