Kayōkyoku
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Kayōkyoku
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| Development phase: | Late 1920s |
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 Japan
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| Stylistic successor | |
| J-pop | |
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| Blues , jazz , Latin American music , tango | |
Kayōkyoku ( Japanese 歌 謡 曲 ; Schlager ) is a musical genre in Japan that emerged in the 1920s and is the predecessor of the J-Pop genre. The Japan Times also describes Kayōkyoku as the standard of Japanese pop music of the time.
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The style of music Kayōkyoku is inspired by western Japanese music.
Unlike the J-pop artists like the singer Keisuke Kuwata of Southern All Stars , the artists in the genre kayōkyoku not use stylized pronunciations and spellings that their emphasis on the English language have. In this respect, the emphasis in Kayōkyoku is on the traditional Japanese language. However, there are exceptions such as Momoe Yamaguchi , she named a song for example Rock 'n' Roll Widow .
Kayōkyoku also differs from Japanese enka music in that it does not force itself to make emotional efforts during the singing.
Famous Kayōkyoku artists are: Kyu Sakamoto , The Peanuts , The Tigers , Candies , Pink Lady , Seiko Matsuda , Junko Sakurada , The Checkers and Onyanko Club .
history
The term Kayōkyoku also describes the classic art song in Japan. Around 1927, the radio station NHK began to rename the genre Kayōkyoku . Many other Japanese musical genres and songs from the Kayōkyoku were lost during the Second World War , as the people associate painful memories with them.
The Kayōkyoku era flourished in Japan between 1950 and 1960 as a mood kayō and from 1970 to the 1980s as an idol kayō . The mood Kayō era was influenced by Latin American music and jazz music. The Idol Kayō era, on the other hand, was influenced by several different genres.
Kayōkyoku's decline is often put on 1989, the year Hibari Misora died and the decade-long television show The Best Ten was discontinued .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Ventures: Still rocking after 50 years. The Japan Times, accessed July 30, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d e Kiyomaru Kikuchi: ゑ れ き て る 特集 2. 日本 の 大衆 音 楽 (Popular Japanese Music, Part 2). (No longer available online.) Toshiba Corporation, 2006, archived from the original on January 17, 2010 ; Retrieved July 30, 2012 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jade Information on Kayōkyoku (Japanese) Retrieved July 30, 2012
- ↑ 神 屋 由 紀 子 : 第 ６ 部 ・ 演 歌 巡礼 <2> 前 川 清 べ た つ か ぬ 距離 感 で 歌 う . (No longer available online.) In: Nishinippon Shimbun. December 13, 2006, archived from the original on February 6, 2009 ; Retrieved August 4, 2012 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
