Extreme Exoticism Test Bank: Japan in the American Musical Imagination 10th Edition by W. Anthony Sheppard

Unlock the Power of Music in Shaping Cultural Understanding

In the American imagination, Japan has represented the ‘most alien’ nation for over 150 years. Music has played a profound role in shaping this understanding, inspiring fantasies of desire and repulsion.

A Comprehensive Investigation of Music’s Impact

W. Anthony Sheppard’s Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music’s role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life.

A Variety of Genres and Media

This book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender.

From Tin Pan Alley to Weezer

From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer’s Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.