2 week : History

This week, I will write about Japanese music history.

 Now, J-POP is called "hougaku".
But this word has two meanings "traditional music peculiar to Japan" and  "Japanese popular music".

 First I will write about traditional music.

There is a statement that is to establish a department of professional music, "Taihouritsuryou". It is an attempt to combine foreign music with secular music to the court music.

Taihouritsuryo

 Roughly divided into elements of this…


・song and dance (Kabuki)

・Gagaku (from China, Korea and South Asia)

・Buddhism statsment (religious music)

・worldly song (folk song)


Japanese music was finished that has been mixed with each other. A lot of this music has been inherited until today.


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Next, write about Japanese popular music.

Music market has expanded at a stroke by the explosive spread of the CD and that playback device  appeared in 1982. Sales continued soaring.

 400 billion yen for the first time record in 1991, continued to update the new high of 94 million to 607.4 billion yen in 1998.

As an individual, Tetsuro Oda is known composer such as "makenaide"(ZARD) in 1993  has been updated in 16 years, the record sales of 11.729 million pieces Yu Aku was recorded in 1977.

 

Yuu Aku & Tetsuro Oda

 

 

 



 "makenaide" ZARD (1993. 1. 27 B-Gram RECORDS)

 

 

 

1990s, digital technology has resulted in changes in music production. To enable a significant reduction in the budget, time, people, mass production of music has become possible.

 

Tetsuya Komuro is a successful musicians to create music notice new technoogy that is without actually play an instrument, such a sequencer, sampling synthesizer and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). He made a lot of  hit songs.

 

 

Tetsuya Komuro

 

 

 

 

Tetsuya Komuro hit song medley

1.Feel Like dance / globe
2.BOY MEETS GIRL / TRF
3.You're my sunshine / Namie Amuro
4.I BELIEVE / Tomomi Kahara
5.Hate tell a lie / Tomomi Kahara
6.SWEET PAIN / globe
7.EZ DO DANCE / TRF
8.a walk in tha park / Namie Amuro
9.Is this love / globe
10.survival dAnce ~no no cry more~ / TRF
11.DEPARTURES / globe
12.WOW WAR TONIGHT ~Tokiniwa okoseyo movemrnt~ / H.Jungle with t
13. Can't Stop Fallin'in Love / globe
14.Don't wanna cry / Namie Amuro
15.FACE / globe
16.Chase the Chance / Namie Amuro
17.Itoshisa to setsunasa to kokorozuyosa to / Ryoko Shinohara
18.I'm Proud / Tomomi Kahara
19.Wanderin' Destiny / globe
20.CAN YOU CELEBRATE / Namie Amuro

 

 

 



Collaboration with recent technology↓

 

 

Tetsuya Komuro meets VOCALOID avex trax



 

1 week : Nativity

Today, I will write about nativity of J-POP.

 The word "J-POP" is born much recentry 1988 made by J-WAVE (Japanese FM-broadcast).
 This word have two meanings, "Japanese Pop Music" and "Japanese Popular Music".
 This word took root in 1993~1995. Still the word "J-League (Japanese professional soccer league)"
is born in 1995 too, and these words were chosen the same year vogue-word in Japan.
 Why the word "J-POP" took long time to take root in, because this word made by J-WAVE so
rival companies did not want to use this word. ]
 Other companies used the word "J-POPS" that is essentially meaning. At present, the word "J-POP" is used various scene.

 I introduce some omnibus CDs!

This CD can listen to some J-POP 1988~2007. (H20 J-POP 20HITS 1988～2007 Avex Group)




... If you want to listen MORE songs, please listen these CDs!!

 (CLIMAX BEST 70's DIAMOND 80's GOLD 90's PLATINIUM Sony Music GROUP)


If you listen these CDs, you will more interested in J-POP. I recommend!!

First

Hello! This is my first blog. I'm a Japanese University student.
Sorry. I'm not very good at English : (
Perhaps I use wrong some English words.
I will write about Japanese Pop Music (contain Enka or some Japanese traditional music).
Please enjoy my blog!!

*I will renew this blog a week.