Japanoise : music at the edge of circulation /

Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe and North America.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Novak, David, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Sign, storage, transmission.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Scenes of liveness and deadness
  • Sonic maps of the Japanese underground
  • Listening to Noise in Kansai
  • Genre Noise
  • Feedback, subjectivity, and performance
  • Japanoise and technoculture
  • The future of cassette culture
  • Epilogue.