Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan

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Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan is written by Christopher T. Keaveney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1793625263 (ISBN 10) and 9781793625267 (ISBN 13).

Using the framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artists—particularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990s—perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.