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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; J-Pop</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>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>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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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>Unhealthy Obsession</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/10/1041/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have about 20,000 songs stored on my I-Pod. A few months ago, I became haunted by the bizarre notion that I should listen to them all at least once: some vague idea about the ethics of ownership, about taking responsibility for music that I&#8217;d decided to hoard. I started going out of my way [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/08/12/the-autumn-concert-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
		<dc:creator>bourdaghs</dc:creator>
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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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