Sayonara-Rockabilly

SAYONARA AMERIKA,
SAYONARA NIPPON:
A GEOPOLITICAL PREHISTORY OF J-POP

Michael K. Bourdaghs

Columbia University Press, 2012

Paper, 304 pages, 13 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-15875-6
$27.50 / £19.00

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ISBN: 978-0-231-15874-9
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Rockabilly and Ereki (1950s-60s):

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Sound Samples:

Mickey Curtis, "GI Blues" (1961)

From the

Fujiyama Rock

(Various artists)

Kamayatsu Hiroshi, "GI Blues" (1961)

From

the CD

Kamayatsu Hiroshi Teichiku Years

1960-1961.

Sakamoto Kyu, "GI Blues" (1961)

From

the

Sakamoto Kyu Singles

Terauchi Takeshi and Bunnies, "Taiyo no

hana" (Flowers of the Sun, 1968). From the

CD Terauchi Takeshi & Bunnies,

Bunnies

Singles

Video clips:

Video clip from special on

1950s Japanese

rockabilly,

including footage of

performances

from Tokyo jazz coffee shops and the Nichigeki

Western Carnival

Footage from Sakamoto Kyu's appearance on

The Steve Allen Show

" (1963)

Footage from

1963 Japanese TV special

success of Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki"

Terauchi Takeshi and Blue Jeans in a circa 1980

performance of "

Tsugaru jongara bushi

," one

of his hybrid Japanese folk/surf compositions.

Other books, articles, and websites:

Time

magazine article on Japanese rockabilly

boom (1958): "

Japan:

Rittoru Dahring

Michael Furmanosky, "

Showa 33: the year

Japan got all shook up

Japan Times

newspaper feature story (21 February 2008)

Mark Schilling, "

Mickey Curtis: From Rocker to

'Robo-G

Japan Times

newspaper feature story

(5 February 2012)

English-language homepage for Watanabe

Productions,

creators of the Nichigeki Western

Carnival

Website review

of "Wakadaisho" (Young guy)

film series that helped launch the

ereki

boom

Recommended CD:

Sakamoto Kyu, Best 30 (EMI Music
Japan TOCT-0251). Two CD set
collecting Sakamoto's best-known
recordings, including "Ue o muite
aruko."