Schedule of Events
Eighth Japan at Chicago Conference Schedule
Friday, May 21, 2010
1:00: Panel One: Popular Music as Engaged, Popular Music as Commodity
Chair: Michael Bourdaghs (University of Chicago)
Paper presenters:
James Dorsey (Dartmouth College): “Breaking Records: Media, Censorship, and the Political Folk Music Movement in 1960s Japan”
Christine R Yano (University of Hawaii): “Time Warp: Misora Hibari Sings the Jet Age Blues”
Michael Molasky (Hitotsubashi University): “Sites of Sound: Shifting Perceptions of Jazz in Postwar Japan”
Discussant: Kaley Mason (University of Chicago)
3:00: Coffee break
3:30 Film Screening
6:30: Alan Merrill (musician): “Alien in Tokyo” (moderated by Michael Bourdaghs)
7:30: Film Screening: The Golden Cups: One More Time! (2004, dir. San Ma Meng, 130 min.): 35mm. with English subtitles
9:45: Roundtable discussion:
Eddie Ban (The Golden Cups)
Louise Louis Kabe (The Golden Cups)
Mamoru Manu (The Golden Cups)
Michael Bourdaghs
James Dorsey
Reginald Jackson
Saturday, May 22, 2010
10:00: Panel Two: Engaging Cinematic Commodities
Chair: Michael Raine (University of Chicago)
Paper presenters:
Junji Yoshida (University of Chicago): “Seduction of Cynicism: War Memories and Japanese Group Sounds Films”
Stephanie DeBoer (Indiana University): “From Technology Transfer to Commodity Circulation: Coeval Geographies and Tokyo/Hong Kong Musicals”
Richard Davis (University of Chicago): “This Face for Rent: Advertising, Space, and Subjectivity in the Japanese New Wave”
Discussant: Michael Fisch (University of Chicago)
1:30: Panel Three: Radical Visual Culture in 1960s Japan
Chair: Chelsea Foxwell (University of Chicago)
Paper presenters:
Jonathan M Hall (Pomona College): “Group Sounds, Group Sex: Syncopating Social Movements in Okabe Michio’s Crazy Love”
William Marotti (UCLA): “Improvisations, Agitations, and Failures: Art in the Streets, Tokyo, ca. 1960”
Miryam Sas (University of California-Berkeley): “Animation Experiments 1960s”
Discussant: Steven Ridgely (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
3:30: Coffee break
4:00 Panel Four: Music in Film
Chair: Junji Yoshida (University of Chicago)
Paper presenters:
Daniel Johnson (University of Chicago): “Nikkatsu’s Diamond Line and Changing Film Culture of the 1960s”
Michael Raine (University of Chicago): “Abe Kōbō and the Tōhō Musical as sōgō geijutsu”
Junko Yamazaki (University of Chicago): “Scoring the Boundaries of Film Music: Toshirō Mayuzumi’s ‘Unresolved Dissonance’”
Discussant: Reginald Jackson (University of Chicago)
8:00 Film Screening
