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  • SOUNDING OUT JAPAN
    RICHARD CHENHALL / TAMARA KOHN / CAROLYN S. STEVENS
    This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences. So many ethnographies describe local worlds with a deep attention to what is seen and what people say, but with a limited understanding of the broader sonic environments that enrich and inform everyday life. Through a focus on sounds, both real a...

    $1,240.00

  • THE BEATLES IN JAPAN
    CAROLYN S. STEVENS
    Following their first tour to Japan in 1966, the Beatles would become an important part of Japan’s postwar cultural development and its deepening relationship with the West. By the 1960s Japan’s dramatic rise in prosperity and the self-confidence of the country’s ‘economic miracle’ period were yet to come; it was not, at this stage, considered a fully-fledged partner of the Wes...

    $1,260.00

  • DISABILITY IN JAPAN
    CAROLYN STEVENS
    Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the differences arising from disability. This book therefore breaks new ground, both for s...

    $1,420.00

  • JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC
    CAROLYN STEVENS
    Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive textual and aural analysis, and on anthropological fieldwork, it provides a wealth o...

    $1,560.00

  • ON THE MARGINS OF JAPANESE SOCIETY
    CAROLYN S. STEVENS
    The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that i...

    $1,320.00