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Help I'm writing a paper on the development of Japanese music post-WWII and it's relation to Western music styles so I need to know some of the more important and possibly obscure bands. I know about some 80s city pop/smooth jazz bands and entry level stuff like Fishmans, YMO, Les Rallizes Denudes, etc and a few J-pop names but other than that I'm pretty much clueless. Who are considered the most important/best musicians in Japanese music? Mainly 50-70s because it's hard to find any information on that in English anywhere.
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Write something about Kazuki Tomokawa and Kan Mikami for sure.
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>>71516784
>le weird subject I nobody knows about XD
why do kids in first college year always do this
pick something you already have a basic knowledge of and that's easy to source you dumbass
that will avoid bored/creeped out looks from other people and a bad grade because you're so bad at making reasearch on your own you have to resort to using 4chan to find someone to go on wikipedia for you
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>>71516840
it's for an asian history class so it's not really that weird or off topic
we're supposed to write about some asian art form or cultural tradition and i chose japanese music.
>>71516822
thanks. I'm already finding some good links from these artists.
my knowledge is mostly of the 80s-90s and 2010s. i know some earlier stuff like happy end and kyu sakamato ("sukiyaki") but not much beyond that
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>>71516875
Yes, but you clearly know nothing about it, otherwise you wouldn't be here asking people to do your research for you.
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>>71516911
tfw years of waifu threads didnt prep you for the real world
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>>71516784
look into free jazz - Keiji Haino and shit
I remember one of the fathers of nihilist free jazz, Peter Bröztzmann, explaining that the movement came about from the disappointment of the German post-war generation. Their parents were revealed to the world as being vile Nazis, the German heritage soiled.
So the young Germans would make music from nihilistic "no roots" principles giving us early electronic music, krautrock and free jazz - I'm sure this kind of "abandon vile, ww losing history" narrative can be found in Japanese post-war music as well - I think you can easily also draw parallels to music cultures of other losing axis such as Germany, Finland and Italy.
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>>71516840
wow why are kids in their first year of college bad at college? really makes me think!
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>>71516875
>it's for an asian history class so it's not really that weird or off topic
just write about nobunaga or something, christ.
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Otomo Yoshihide is essential.. Keiji Haino and Kaoru Abe as well.
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>>71516784
Hijōkaidan
Taj Mahal Travellers
Jagatara
Sadistic Mika Band
Yumi Arai
Yosui Inoue
Yuya Uchida/Flower Travellin' Band
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>>71516784
Kazuki Tomokawa
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>>71516784
Hiroshi Yoshimura - for environmental music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7aYjRl_6Zw
Tetsu Inoue - for ambient music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9drao3bCVU
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>>71516784
MALICE MIZER
Gothic 90's band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwnbOf84gL8
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>>71519830
Another song, very western influenced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVMXc9wHSIA
Their music is based on classical music and rock
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>>71519903
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFfozS_2_8
Their early years.
This song has Bach's Two part Invention 4 as a bridge. Also Beethoven's Für Elise
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