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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon</title>
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		<title>This and That: Two Weeks in the Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the radio silence around these parts in recent days. It&#8217;s been a busy, fun couple of weeks since last I posted here. I was in Tokyo for six days last week, meeting with other scholars and visiting archives and bookstores. I also had a chance to get together with the good people at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Companion for Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/05/12/online-companion-for-sayonara-amerika-sayonara-nippon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 23:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created an online companion for readers of my book, Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop, including sound samples, links to video clips, and other goodies. You can check it out here. If you have any suggestions for improvements or additions, please send them along. In addition to paperback and hardcover, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Weekend</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/05/03/the-coming-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s going to be a busy weekend. Friday, I&#8217;m planning to head downtown to catch Kids These Days, a terrific group that combines hip hop, jazz and R&#038;B, in their set at Columbia College&#8217;s &#8220;Manifest&#8221; festival: 5:40-6:30 p.m. &#8220;Under the Big Tent&#8221; at 1001 S. Wabash Ave. There will be free music performances all day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/05/02/the-current-reading-list-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (2011). The much-celebrated debut novel tracing the sentimental education of a promising young shortstop for the Westish College baseball team. I think I came to this a victim of inflated expectations; it&#8217;s a good novel, yes, with two or three marvelously constructed characters and a handful of scenes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That: New J-Pop Stuff</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/05/01/this-and-that-new-j-pop-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that her band Tokyo Incidents is history, Shiina Ringo isn&#8217;t standing still. She has a new single out, &#8220;Jiyu e michizure,&#8221; in which she taps into her punky shrieking-guitars vein. I kinda like it: J-Rock veterans Grapevine will be providing a free live Ustream feed on May 2 of the final date from their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rodrigo y Gabriela vs. Southern All Stars</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/04/20/rodrigo-y-gabriela-vs-southern-all-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we attended a terrific sold-out show by Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Chicago Theatre. For the most part, I agree with Greg Kot&#8217;s concert review in the Chicago Tribune. The concert began with the duo backed by a band of supporting musicians from Cuba&#8211;but a bad mix often drowned out the guitars, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Group Sounds Revisited</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/04/11/the-politics-of-group-sounds-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my book, Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop, I trace the hints of coming revolution that seemed to reverberate within guitar noise in Japan circa 1968&#8211;and the ultimate absorption of that political edge into the new commercialism of 1970s rock. My primary focus in that section of the book is on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Days in New York City</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/04/07/a-few-days-in-new-york-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I flew into New York City on Wednesday afternoon. Right after checking into my hotel, headed over to the Barrymore Theatre on West 47th to catch &#8220;Death of a Salesman,&#8221; directed by Mike Nichols with Philip Seymour Hoffman playing Willy Loman. Hoffman&#8217;s portrayal has elicited a wide range of reactions, from gushing celebration (e.g. John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Ball!  (Japanese style)</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/03/30/play-ball-japanese-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Nippon Professional Baseball season is officially underway. The Yomiuri Giants (boo!) seem the favorites in the Central league, while in the Pacific League its the Fukuoka Soft Bank Hawks with their new import pitcher Brad Penny. As for me, I&#8217;m curious to see how the Hanshin Tigers fare under new manager Wada Yutaka, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Musical Discovery</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/03/21/todays-musical-discovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I poked my head in at the website for the World Happiness music festival to see who was on the bill this year. This is the annual one-day event organized by Yellow Magic Orchestra, with YMO as headliners and a changing roster of supporting artists, all hand-picked by YMO. We very much enjoyed [...]]]></description>
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