{"id":1916,"date":"2008-12-02T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2008-12-02T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T16:49:26","slug":"jameri-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/02\/jameri-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Jameri-pop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbamboo.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/japanamerica-japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"188\" \/>I was listening to NY-based band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyfunsmile.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HappyFunSmile<\/strong><\/a> on my iShuffle on my subway commute home last night, and it hit me that bands like HappyFunSmile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaijin55.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gaijin-a-Go-Go<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sohdaiko.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Soh Daiko<\/strong><\/a> (of which <strong>Ariel Shearman<\/strong> (Ichikawa-ken, 1994-97) is a member) and perhaps others seem to be part of a trend that could be called &#8220;<strong>Jameri-pop<\/strong>,&#8221; i.e., a hybrid of US and Japanese culture, though perhaps with an ironic sense more typical in U.S. culture than Japanese.\u00a0 Sort of a twist on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Kelts<\/a>&#8216;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericabook.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Japanamerica<\/strong><\/em><\/a> concept.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing someone somewhere has already discussed and described this trend, though I Googled the word &#8220;jameripop&#8221; and nothing came up. Maybe it&#8217;s just a New York thing at this point in time, given the high concentration of young Japanese people in a city already known for setting trends.  I don&#8217;t travel around to other parts of the U.S. enough to know.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Do you have other examples of &#8220;Jameri-pop?&#8221;\u00a0 Send an e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:jetwit@jetwit.com\">jetwit \/atto\/ jetwit \/dotto\/ com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of HappyFunSmile from a performance at the Knitting Factory in NYC:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bYOLyphufko&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to NY-based band HappyFunSmile on my iShuffle on my subway commute home last night, and it hit me that bands like HappyFunSmile, Gaijin-a-Go-Go, Soh Daiko (of which Ariel Shearman (Ichikawa-ken, 1994-97) is a member) and perhaps others seem to be part of a trend that could be called &#8220;Jameri-pop,&#8221; i.e., a hybrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,30,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-japan-trends","category-music","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-uU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}