Music infomation for my presentation

[~Saru]

Well, in my oriental languages class we all have to do a presentation on a country and a subject.
I really didn't want to challenge myself too much with this and chose and easy topic.
Japanese modern and popular music.
I've already done my facts on Visual kei, fashion influences, para para, anime theme tunes and film theme tunes, artists, music genre's.
But i have to do a topic on how the japanese music is received in other countries becasue of the history of the countrys like in taiwan when the japanese imprisoned people...i dunno.. things like that.
Im not very good at that kind of stuff so if anyone has any infomation it would help very much.


thank youu

[Crystal_Ageha]

Hm... All I can really think of is that, in the US, nothing that is Japanese is usually accepted by anybody other than anime nerds, not just because it's foreign and they don't like that, but 'cause, you know, the Pearl Harbour thing. :\ And uh... Well, the thing about Japanese music is, it's still fairly isolated, just like the country. Really the only countries that both are completely open-minded about Japanese music and that the Japanese try to share their music with are other Asian countries.
I guess, in parts of Europe certain Japanese acts are almost like underground stuff, and it's had at least some success. (Like, I have a friend who moved to Greece, and she says there are several "J-Pop/Rock festival" thingies all year. And an Internet pal I have from Hungary says she knows a surprising amount of people who like J-Pop.) But other than that... (Sorry, I'm not much help. XD)

Maybe you could try to build something off of where Japanese music has had success because of similar styles? Like, I think it's had some success in parts of Europe because both they and the Japanese like to use heavy synthesis stuff. (Eurobeat? ) And how it can make it in other Asian countries because of related cultures.

[KarenPang]

i have to do a topic on how the japanese music is received in other countries becasue of the history of the countrys like in taiwan when the japanese imprisoned people...i dunno.. things like that.

well I don't know how this's going to help you but in my country , jpop's relatively big/received but due to the recent Korean wave invasion & the always/never ending strong Chinese & English music markets , it kinda got sided off to 1 side of the other end of the room T_T

The worst thing's that the media here has been hampering/brainwashing everyone that everything Korean's all that great

I honestly have nothing against anything that's Korean influenced but once when you start force feeding it in my face grr

[aura~]

Mmm... in Spain... XD Totally unaccepted, only anime/jpop fans (of course) know about it... the rest simply doesn't accept it and think that people who listens to japanese (oriental music in general) are freaks... They usually doesn't even give an oportunity to it, but people here have an already-made image of how japanese people are and they imagine them like crazy people that wear disguises in the streets, talk always like children and cute, who do silly things and read always manga, sing Karaoke and love hentai... apart of that there're people who don't want to hear music they can't understand... there're more reasonable people who only listen to spanish artist because of that, but others listen to english music without speaking english only because it's popular... so...

that's how it is in Spain... -_______- there's nothing about politics or history... only how the media wants people to think about Japan...

[pommy48]

Taiwan loves Jpop XD

The girls love their JE boys Even in Taiwan~

Obviously Japanese artists know of their fan base in Taiwan, many had their concerts there~

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by pommy48

Taiwan loves Jpop XD

The girls love their JE boys Even in Taiwan~

Obviously Japanese artists know of their fan base in Taiwan, many had their concerts there~

JPop's big in Taiwan & the people really embraced it big time & I can sense the support's much stronger & up there as compared to my country ;____;

I miss MTV Taiwan already on cable here bah

[pommy48]

Oh but still some Taiwaneses hate the Japanese, but that's mostly the older generations because they remember what happened~

But really...the younger generation don't care @_@