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Informationen zum Autor Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is an Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. USA. She specializes in opera of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, film music, and the music of modern Japan. In addition to numerous articles and Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour : Food, Gender, Rock and Roll (2020), McCorkle Okazaki is the co-author of Japan’s Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema (2018). In the 2019-2020 academic year, she received a Japan Foundation Fellowship to complete her monograph Searching for Wagner in Japan. Happy Hour, filled with pop punk songs about food, encapsulates the international allure of the all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan. Zusammenfassung Shonen Knife—an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan—cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band’s charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Images and Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Itadakimasu! (Let’s Eat!) 1. Girl Bands and Josei Rock, 1950s–1980s2. Food, Gender, and Music in Postwar Japan3. Shonen Knife’s Songs in the Key of Food4. Konnichiwa! : An Introduction to Happy Hour (1998) and its Cover Art5. Happy Hour : Food, Music, and Transnational Flow 6. The Delicious Banality of “Banana Chips” 7. Sweet Candy Power: Shonen Knife and Their Josei Rock Legacy Notes Bibliography Discography Index ...
