{"id":1423,"date":"2012-03-06T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2012-03-06T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:23:50","slug":"featured-book-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Featured Book of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon:  A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop<\/em> is the &#8220;featured book of the week&#8221; on the Columbia University Press blog.  Among other things, they&#8217;re giving away a free copy, but hurry:  the contest ends this Friday.  Details are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cupblog.org\/?p=5568\">here<\/a>.    <\/p>\n<p>In celebration, let me leave you with &#8220;To My Dear Friends&#8221; (Waga yoki tomo yo), a 1975 hit for Kamayatsu Hiroshi. Kamayatsu is one of the heroes of my chapter four, &#8220;Working within the System:  Group Sounds and the Commercial and Revolutionary Potential of Noise.&#8221;  The tune, composed by Yoshida Takuro, was the biggest hit of Kamayatsu&#8217;s solo career, which followed his stint as resident musical genius for 1960s&#8217; garage rockers, The Spiders.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XBUcoQWNLos\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kamayatsu was the son of Tib Kamayatsu, a Japanese-American jazz singer whose career in Tokyo dated back to the 1930s.  He debuted in the late 1950s as a country-western and rockabilly singer before joining the Spiders.  He was one of the first Japanese rock-and-rollers to really &#8220;get&#8221; the new Merseybeat sound when it exploded onto the scene in 1964 and went on to compose many of the Spiders&#8217; hits.  In his seventies now, &#8220;Monsieur&#8221; Kamayatsu remains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdash.jp\/profile\/kdash\/kamayatsu\/\">an active force on the Japanese music scene today<\/a>.  One of my biggest thrills as a music fan came in 2006, when I ended up sitting a couple of rows away from him in the balcony for a show by the reunited Sadistic Mika Band.  It took enormous will power to stop me from cornering him to gush about how much I love his work.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Kamayatsu was (and is) a huge Kinks fan.  Listen to the opening riff from the Spiders&#8217; 1966 recording of &#8220;Little Roby,&#8221; lifted more or less directly from the Kinks&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/TkWAIDbs6LA\">Set Me Free<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cv9BtQA_1H0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class='shareinpost'><ul class=\"socialwrap row\"><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Bookmark this post : Featured Book of the Week on Delicious'  href='http:\/\/delicious.com\/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1423&amp;title=Featured+Book+of+the+Week'  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='delicious'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) 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