Mark Schilling.The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture (неопр.) 98. Weatherhill (1997). Дата обращения: 10 марта 2019. Архивировано 5 марта 2016 года. «But on New Year's Eve of 1995, Kohaku clobbered the competition with a 44.9 percent rating for its first section, which ... In the early 1990s the Japanese pop music scene resembled that of the West in its fragmentation and cross-fertilization. Folk rock with an Okinawan accent? Spacey ambient grooves in no known human language? We got it. Former pop music categories, consequently, became largely meaningless or changed their meaning altogether. To make things simple for record buyers, stores began classifying all contemporary Japanese pop music as "J Pop" while applying the kayokyoku label, which literally means "Japanese popular music" and was formerly reserved primarily for the pop products of "idol" singers and groups, to collections of enka ballads. But while thousands of groups were catering to tiny cliques of fans in clubs and concert halls, a few artists were racking up incredible sales numbers in the mainstream pop marketplace. The number one single of the 1980s, "Dancing All Night" ...»
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Mark Schilling.The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture (неопр.) 98. Weatherhill (1997). Дата обращения: 10 марта 2019. Архивировано 5 марта 2016 года. «But on New Year's Eve of 1995, Kohaku clobbered the competition with a 44.9 percent rating for its first section, which ... In the early 1990s the Japanese pop music scene resembled that of the West in its fragmentation and cross-fertilization. Folk rock with an Okinawan accent? Spacey ambient grooves in no known human language? We got it. Former pop music categories, consequently, became largely meaningless or changed their meaning altogether. To make things simple for record buyers, stores began classifying all contemporary Japanese pop music as "J Pop" while applying the kayokyoku label, which literally means "Japanese popular music" and was formerly reserved primarily for the pop products of "idol" singers and groups, to collections of enka ballads. But while thousands of groups were catering to tiny cliques of fans in clubs and concert halls, a few artists were racking up incredible sales numbers in the mainstream pop marketplace. The number one single of the 1980s, "Dancing All Night" ...»
