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Chapters: Pizzicato Five, Cibo Matto, Momus, Captain Funk, Cornelius, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Towa Tei, Kahimi Karie, Yukari Fresh, Capsule, Takako Minekawa, Hirohisa Horie, Buffalo Daughter, Cymbals, Chocolat, Scha Dara Parr, Flipper's Guitar, Minawo, Maki Nomiya, Yasuharu Konishi, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Kenji Ozawa, Yoshinori Sunahara, Coba. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shibuya-kei ) is a sub-genre of Japanese pop music which originated in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. It is best described as a mix between jazz, pop, and electropop. The word for Shibuya ) is combined with the Japanese word kei ) which literally means "system" or, in this context, "style", to form Shibuya-kei which roughly translates to "Shibuya style". Initially, the term was applied to Flipper's Guitar, and Pizzicato Five, bands strongly influenced by French yé-yé music and its most notable proponent, Serge Gainsbourg. Other influences include lounge, and bossa nova. As the style's popularity increased at end of the 90s, the term began to be applied to many bands whose musical stylings began to reflect a more mainstream sensibility. Some artists rejected or resisted being categorized as "Shibuya-kei," but the name ultimately stuck. The style was favoured by local businesses, including Shibuya Center Street's HMV Shibuya, which sold Shibuya-kei records in its traditional Japanese music section. Increasingly, musicians outside of Japan, such as Britain's Momus, France's Dimitri from Paris, and the US artists Natural Calamity and Phofo are labelled Shibuya-kei. For more artists, see Shibuya-kei musicians ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=739230