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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Music</title>
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		<title>Counterfeiting China in 1930s Japan Pop Songs</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/02/02/counterfeiting-china-in-1930s-japan-pop-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article I wrote about &#8220;continental melodies,&#8221; a 1930s genre of pop songs from Japan that mimicked China and Korea, has just been published. Taking their cue as much from Tin Pan Alley Orientalism as from contemporary &#8220;Yellow Music&#8221; on the continent, these seductive tunes enjoyed massive popularity in Japan during the early years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That (New Year&#8217;s Edition)</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/01/03/this-and-that-new-years-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to you! Here&#8217;s hoping 2012 brings us all peace and joy. As the traumatic year 2011 wound down in Japan, there were any number of notable music events. Rock veterans Moonriders ended their thirty-five year run with a rooftop concert in Shinjuku, holding the Beatles&#8217; legendary &#8220;Let It Be&#8221; rooftop performance in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Blue New Year?</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/30/a-blue-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year 2011 took a heavy toll on Chicago blues: the deaths of Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, David &#8220;Honeyboy&#8221; Edwards and Willie &#8220;Big Eyes&#8221; Smith contributed to the sense that an era was passing rapidly. Will the art survive, and if so, in what form? Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune published an important series [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/25/eight-terrific-japanese-pop-songs-from-2011-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<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>Music Sans Guitar</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/15/music-sans-guitar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling gorged in contemporary music that eschews the guitar. There is, for starters, the brilliant British charity holiday single by &#8220;Cage Against the Machine,&#8221; an all-star assemblage of performers gathered in one studio to record an epic cover version of John Cage&#8217;s 4&#8217;33&#8243; (you know, the one that is 4 minutes and 33 seconds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And What Did You Do This Past Weekend?</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/13/and-what-did-you-do-this-past-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for us, aside from shoveling snow and watching our daughter play Debussy beautifully in a piano recital on Sunday, we spent a good part of our weekend giggling over these television commercials for Panda cheese.]]></description>
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		<title>Janáček and Schoenberg, too</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/05/janacek-and-schoenberg-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went to Symphony Center last night to see Pierre Boulez conduct an exhilarating program with the Chicago Symphony. It was the kind of performance that leaves you with goosebumps, even the morning after. The evening opened with the orchestral version of Schoenberg&#8217;s 1899 composition, &#8220;Transfigured Night.&#8221; I know this primarily in its original format, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whirlwind</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/03/whirlwind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night we attend my daughter&#8217;s high school winter concert here in Chicago. She sings in the choir, but we also enjoyed sets by the school orchestra, chamber ensemble, band and jazz ensemble. The band played a very striking piece I&#8217;d never heard before: &#8220;Whirlwind,&#8221; composed by Jodie Blackshaw. The worktakes a number of important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet the Suicide Commandos</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/23/ladies-and-gentlemen-meet-the-suicide-commandos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just stumbled across this very nice video clip introducing the Suicide Commandos, the godfathers of the Twin Cities musical scene that produced the Replacements, Husker Du (add an umlaut or two there), Soul Asylum, Trip Shakespeare, Golden Smog, the Jayhawks, and eight dozen other great bands you&#8217;ve never heard of. The clip combines archival [...]]]></description>
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