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Japan's Tin Drum

Agata Pyzik (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2222-8 (ISBN)

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Tin Drum seeks to provide an outsider look at one of the most mysterious post-punk albums, the 1981 Orientalist and escapist manifesto by the English synth-pop/new wave English band Japan. As an act of cultural appropriation and a meditation on the perils of Western civilisation, seeking solace in a virtual trip to the 'Orient of the self' and Maoist ideology, Tin Drum invites external analysis to be culturally appropriated itself. Agata Pyzik tells how the fruitful encounter between the neurotic Western youngsters and dream of the radically other East produced one of the most dissonant and compelling records of the era, too strange to be appreciated at the time, a big hit at the time but too peculiar to be fully understood. Why, at the break of the 1980s and the final decade of the cold war, do these pale aesthetes dream of Mao's China? At once incredibly English and exotic, futurist and backward-looking, Japan and Tin Drum were a unique exercise in Rimbaudian 'becoming somebody else', fascinated in Chinese communism, anticipating the surge of the interest in Chinese Tiger just as it was shaking off Mao's legacy to become a modern, capitalist economy. Yet the yearning to become 'different' expressed in it, both in terms of class and nationality, makes the album's claim unexpectedly universal.

Agata Pyzik is a Polish writer active in Great Britain since 2010. She's the author of the critically acclaimed Poor but Sexy (2014). Pyzik publishes widely since 2004, covering mostly culture, music and politics. Among her main interests are the Cold War, post-war modernism, post-punk and Soviet history. Currently she's working on a project for Penguin, on the cultural aspects of global political change in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Introduction
Neurosis
Orientalism
Communism

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2020
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	121 x 165 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-2222-2 / 1501322222
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-2222-8 / 9781501322228
Zustand	Neuware