Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro

Prof Kunio Hara (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4512-8 (ISBN)

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My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. A crucial step in the two artists’ collaboration was the creation of the album, My Neighbor Totoro: Image Song Collection, with lyrics penned by Miyazaki and Nakagawa Rieko, a famed children’s book author, and music composed by Hisaishi. The album, released in 1987 prior to the opening of the film, served not only as a promotional product, but also provided Miyazaki with concrete ideas about the characters and the themes of the film. This book investigates the extent to which Hisaishi’s music shaped Miyazaki’s vision by examining the relationship between the images created by Miyazaki and the music composed by Hisaishi, with special emphasis on their approaches to nostalgia, one of the central themes of the film.

Kunio Hara is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of South Carolina, USA. His research focuses on Puccini’s operas, exoticism and orientalism in music, music in postwar Japan, and nostalgia.

List of Examples
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Miyazaki, Hisaishi, and Their Collaboration
2. Two Songs from the Image Album
3. Totoro in Music and Sound
4. The Wind and the Forest
5. Satsuki and Mei
6. Forgotten Sounds
Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering
Notes
References
Filmography
Discography
Track Lists
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3 Japan
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-4512-5 / 1501345125
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-4512-8 / 9781501345128
Zustand	Neuware