Freshman Seminar 33q: Global Pop Music

14. East Asia: China, Japan and Korea

NOTE: These lists are intended to be representative only and to pique curiosity. These basic sources can help you narrow down a topic and find useful keyword search terms to try in Hollis and databases (Sections 2 and 3).

Selected online:

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea (Volume 7)

Asia (University of Washington Libraries ethnomusicology portal)

Archive of World Music (Harvard University), located in the Loeb Music Library houses many commercial world music recordings (find in Hollis) and also archival collections, such as wide-ranging Chinese songs acquired by Harvard Professor Emeritus Rulan Pian.

Chinese Music (publications of the Chinese Music Society of North America)

Music from Korea

Japanese Music (University of Texas)


Selected print:

Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia
ed by Timothy Craig and Richard King
Location 1: Loeb Music Harvard Depository DS509.3 .G56 2002
Location 2: Widener WID-LC DS12 .G56 2002bx
Location 3: Harvard-Yenching (W) DS12 .G56 2002

Global Noise: Rap and Hip-hop Outside the USA
ed by Tony Mitchell
Location 1: Loeb Music ML3531 .G56 2001
Location 2: Tozzer Harvard Depository TOZ-LC ML3531 .G56 2001
Location 3: Widener WID-LC ML3531 .G56 2001

Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave
ed by Keith Howard
Harvard-Yenching (W) ML3502.K6 K67 2006x
Loeb Music ML3502.K6 K67 2006

Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song
by Christine R. Yano
Location 1: Loeb Music ML3501 .Y3 2002 
Location 2: Harvard-Yenching (W) ML3501 .Y3 2002
Location 3: Multiple others including Fung, Tozzer, Lamont and Widener

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