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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Protest Music After Fukushima (Hardcover)
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Protest Music After Fukushima (Hardcover)
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Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the
1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant
disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the
nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the
mainstream media adheres to the official line that nuclear power is
Japan's future. Public debate about nuclear energy is strongly
discouraged. Nevertheless, antinuclear activism has swelled into
one of the most popular and passionate movements in Japan, leading
to a powerful wave of protest music. The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima shows that music played a
central role in expressing antinuclear sentiments and mobilizing
political resistance in Japan. Combining musical analysis with
ethnographic participation, author Noriko Manabe offers an
innovative typology of the spaces central to the performance of
protest music-cyberspace, demonstrations, festivals, and
recordings. She argues that these four spaces encourage different
modes of participation and methods of political messaging. The
openness, mobile accessibility, and potential anonymity of
cyberspace have allowed musicians to directly challenge the ethos
of silence that permeated Japanese culture post-Fukushima. Moving
from cyberspace to real space, Manabe shows how the performance and
reception of music played at public demonstrations are shaped by
the urban geographies of Japanese cities. While short on open
public space, urban centers in Japan offer protesters a wide range
of governmental and commercial spaces in which to demonstrate, with
activist musicians tailoring their performances to the particular
landscapes and soundscapes of each. Music festivals are a space
apart from everyday life, encouraging musicians and audience
members to freely engage in political expression through
informative and immersive performances. Conversely, Japanese record
companies and producers discourage major-label musicians from
expressing political views in recordings, forcing antinuclear
musicians to express dissent indirectly: through allegories,
metaphors, and metonyms. The first book on Japan's antinuclear
music, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised provides a compelling
new perspective on the role of music in political movements.
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