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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; J-Rock</title>
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		<title>Eight Terrific Japanese Pop Songs from 2011 (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/26/eight-terrific-japanese-pop-songs-from-2011-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list continues: 4). The Beatniks, &#8220;A Song for 4 Beats) Takahashi Yukihiro (late of Sadistic Mika Band and Yellow Magic Orchestra) has been making some remarkably lush-sounding music lately, especially with his new unit, pupa. Here, he reunites with Suzuki Keiichi (late of Hachimitsu Pie and Moonriders) under the moniker The Beatniks. The specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Terrific Japanese Pop Songs from 2011 (Part One)</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/25/eight-terrific-japanese-pop-songs-from-2011-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given my current listening post in exile, I&#8217;m hardly in a position to claim anything like a comprehensive grasp of today&#8217;s music scene in Japan. But here are some songs I&#8217;ll remember 2011 by. What a year it was&#8230;. 8). Ando Yuko (安藤裕子), &#8220;Kagayashiki hibi&#8221; (輝かしき日々) I&#8217;d been trying to get myself to like Ando&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sakamoto Ryuichi at the Vic</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/10/26/sakamoto-ryuichi-at-the-vic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sakamoto Ryuichi played a stunningly beautiful one-man show earlier tonight at the Vic here in Chicago. It was mostly solo piano, although he used a number of electronic effects to add layers of complexity to the music. The evening opened with an atmospheric number in which Sakamoto strummed directly on the strings inside the piano [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another One Bites the Dust in the J-Pop Scene</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/02/another-one-bites-the-dust-in-the-j-pop-scene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little behind the curve on this story, but]]></description>
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		<title>The Autumn Concert Season</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/08/12/the-autumn-concert-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, our upcoming fall concert-going season is pretty well set, and I&#8217;m looking forward to some exciting live music. Here are the events we&#8217;re planning to attend. How about you? September 4-5: Chicago Jazz Festival (one of the nation&#8217;s premiere jazz events, and it&#8217;s all free!) September 19: Aimee Mann (Old Town School of Folk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Happiness 2010</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/08/09/world-happiness-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we braved the heat and humidity here in Tokyo to attend World Happiness 2010, the annual musical festival organized by the members of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Luckily, the sun stayed behind the clouds all day, making it almost bearable to be outside the whole afternoon and evening. We arrived around 2:00, just as punksters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Past Year at the University of Chicago:  The Video Record</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/30/the-past-year-at-the-university-of-chicago-the-video-record/</link>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/30/the-past-year-at-the-university-of-chicago-the-video-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who study Japanese culture and literature at the University of Chicago had an exciting year in 2009-2010. We&#8217;ve now posted video of some of the major events. Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo delivered this year&#8217;s Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture in March. Video of his speech, &#8220;A Novelist Re-Reads &#8216;Kaitokudo,&#8217;&#8221; in the original Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day Tripper to Japan</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/21/day-tripper-to-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beatles&#8217; live shows at Tokyo Budokan in the summer of 1966 were a turning point in the history of Japanese rock&#8211;and in the history of the integration of Japanese youth into the global music market. Some of the four shows they played were filmed for television, providing us with a good document of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging Commodities:  The Media Blitz</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/18/engaging-commodities-the-media-blitz/</link>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/18/engaging-commodities-the-media-blitz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Shimpo, a local bilingual weekly aimed at the Japanese-American community, has given nice front-page coverage to our recent conference, &#8220;Engaging Commodities: Crossing Mass Culture and the Avant Garde in 1960s Japanese Film, Music and Art.&#8221; The newspaper focuses on the guest musicians who participated, The Golden Cups and Alan Merrill, including interviews with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging Commodities:  The Photographs</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/05/25/engaging-commodities-the-photographs/</link>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/05/25/engaging-commodities-the-photographs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good folks at Altamira Pictures and Altamira Music, who manage The Golden Cups, have posted a series of photographs from the Cups&#8217; visit to Chicago and our conference this past weekend, including some nice shots of Alan Merrill as well. They promise to post more in the near future, too. Check it out here. [...]]]></description>
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