Mid-Year Lists 2010

[koganbot]

Mid-Year Lists 2010

Singles First Half 2010: "Blah Blah Blah" is the big hairy dance-mess that's dancing over the world, while Aggro and Dizzee are the only other representatives here of 2010's dance-pop mess. Not enough country on this list, and at this time of year that's usually my fault, but this time I think it's country's. (Probably not

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[anonymous]

In addition, it is not only that “outside” ideas are combined to create new creolized forms. Together with creolization is co-occurrence of the Japan-created Other and a reinvented notion of the traditional in unblended coexistence. Goldstein-Gidoni (2001) presents a refined thinking about the processes in which the foreign and the local interact through examination of patterns and changes in the modern Japanese wedding ceremony. What she describes is neither cultural homogenization nor creolization, but rather a complex domain where imaginary or contrived Western and Japanese constructions commingle. The artificial wedding cake and fake chapel are Japanese abstractions of Western ritual, and the traditional Shinto wedding is not rooted in legend but is a Meiji-era (1868-1912) invention. Similarly, “French” or “South Asian” beauty industry goods and services often do not “arrive” in Japan but are created there. Thus we find an aesthetic salon treatment based on Western astrological signs and Shiseido’s faux-French Clé de Peau Beauté series of skincare products. Aesthetic salons are always busy inventing putatively indigenous beauty treatments, such as the Ama Massage, named after Japanese women shellfish divers. Despite its venerable Taoist name, the Yin Yang Five Elements treatment originated in the minds of the marketing staff at an aesthetic salon, not in the ancient Chinese past.

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I think this process is the same, and you could check how American R&B goes in South Korea or France from “originator” to specific bits that fit with the local thing… But there are scholar books about reggae, hip-hop, hardcore rock and jazz in Japan, so probably they could give you a better framework than what I can do…

[koganbot]

I knew Laura Miller slightly when I lived in San Francisco - assuming it's the same Laura Miller, and given her interests and writing style it probably is. I'm impressed with her thoughtfulness here.