J-Pop and performances of young female identity
J-Pop and performances of young female identity
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J-Pop 与年轻女性身份的表演
DOI：
10.1177/110330880801600201
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Csaba Toth
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作者：
Csaba Toth
本文考察了日本流行音乐（J-Pop）中性与女性气质的表现及其相关的俱乐部文化场景。虽然日本对性别的许多方面进行了广泛的历史研究，但流行音乐文化、性别和城市空间之间的关系却很少得到认可。基于在日本广泛的实地调查，这篇文章不仅分析了当今的女明星滨崎ayumi， Shina Ringo和Misia是如何再现和扮演规定的性别和性角色的，而且揭示了在许多情况下，她们是如何违反这些规定的。这些女性表演者通过突出女孩主题，激发了女孩的团结，并提供了重新表达年轻女性气质的可能性，从而开辟了一个代表性的空间。它们代表了东京当前音乐和风格场景以及文化地理的不同角度。这些场景和地域都是由东京的城市标志塑造的，与它们密不可分。东京的女粉丝们夜以继日地跟随这些城市标志，来到播放她们喜爱的明星音乐的俱乐部。女孩们积极参与日本流行歌手制作的商业化媒体文本的俱乐部，这有助于她们发展自己的身份，并与其他年轻女性建立关系。该研究认为，从涉谷的跨种族“白人”风格的场景、“黑人”灵魂乐和节奏布鲁斯（R&B）风格的俱乐部，到新宿的“肮脏”迪斯科酒吧，年轻女性探索新的种族（跨亚洲，“亚洲黑人”）、性别和性以及代际身份的可能性。本文希望对应用、跨国性别和文化研究以及音乐批评有所贡献。
This article examines the staging of sexuality and femininity in Japan Pop (J-Pop) and its related club-cultural scenes. While historical research on many aspects of gender in Japan has been extensive, the relationship between popular music culture, gender, and urban space has been given little recognition. Based on extensive field research in Japan, the article provides an analysis of not only how present-day female stars, Ayumi Hamasaki, Shina Ringo and Misia reproduce and enact prescribed gender and sexual roles, but also reveals how, in many instances, they transgress those. These female performers managed to carve out a representational space by highlighting girl themes that energized girl solidarity, and held up the possibility for rearticulating young femininity. They represent different angles of Tokyo's current music and style scenes, and cultural geography. These are scenes and geographies shaped by and inseparable from urban markers that female fans follow night after night in Tokyo in order to reach clubs playing the music of their favorite stars. Girls’ active engagement in clubs with commercialized media texts that J-Pop performers produce assists them with the development of their identity and formation of relationships with other young females. The study argues that from trans-ethnic ‘white’-style scenes, ‘black’ soul, and rhythm and blues (R&B)-oriented clubs in Shibuya to Shinjuku's ‘seedy’ disco bars, young women explore possibilities for new ethnic (trans-Asian, ‘Asian black’), gender and sexual, and generational identities. The essay hopes to contribute to applied, transnational gender and cultural studies as well as music criticism.