Two new books by M&C faculty members: Dr. Fabienne Darling-Wolf and Dr. Nancy Morris:
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media, Edited by Dr. Darling-Wolf
This book is a comprehensive study of the key contemporary issues and scholarly discussions around Japanese media. Covering a wide variety of forms and types from newspapers, television and film, to music, manga and social media, this book examines the role of the media in shaping Japanese society from the Meiji era’s intense engagement with Western culture to our current period of rapid digital innovation. It also explores how the entry of Japanese popular culture onto the global scene altered the course of popular cultural production throughout the world.
Thinking About Music from Latin America: Issues and Questions, written by Juan Pablo Gonzalez, translated by Dr. Morris
This book traces the path of musicology in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries and provides a series of case studies to illustrate ways Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. Focusing on Chilean cases, it brings New Musicology to Latin America and to a general audience, addressing such topics as popular music, post-colonialism, women in Latin American music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction through music.