The politics of credit in remix of Japanese popular culture: Between “an 80's Japanese disco floor” and “this remix is worthy of the actual game”

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI:10.1177/13678779231220399

Mark Kretzschmar, Mel Stanfill

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Abstract

In this article, we examine songs that reuse decades-old Japanese media, in which the Japaneseness is both important and attenuated. While there is clear desire for and pleasure in the Japaneseness of source materials in vaporwave (electronic music featuring manipulated sounds and images from the 1980s and 1990s) and future funk (which commonly samples 1980s Japanese music and speeds it up), actual sources matter primarily as a signifier of Japaneseness. Conversely, game sounds (songs that sample or mimic 1990s and 2000s video game music) and chiptunes (songs made with 1980s and 1990s video game hardware) have a direct relationship with either specific video games or material hardware that highlights a direct tie to transnationally distributed culture. Overall, these ways of engaging with Japanese media have significant implications for theorizing cross-cultural exchange.

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日本流行文化混音中的信用政治：在 "80 年代日本迪斯科舞池 "与 "该混音版配得上真正的游戏 "之间徘徊

在本文中，我们将探讨重复使用几十年前的日本媒体的歌曲，在这些歌曲中，日本性既重要又被削弱。虽然在蒸汽波（以上世纪八九十年代经过处理的声音和图像为特色的电子音乐）和未来放克（通常对上世纪八十年代的日本音乐进行采样并将其加速）中，人们显然对原始材料的日本性充满渴望并乐在其中，但实际的原始材料主要是日本性的标志。相反，游戏音效（采样或模仿 20 世纪 90 年代和 2000 年代电子游戏音乐的歌曲）和 chiptunes（使用 20 世纪 80 年代和 90 年代电子游戏硬件制作的歌曲）与特定的电子游戏或物质硬件有着直接的关系，突出了与跨国传播文化的直接联系。总之，这些接触日本媒体的方式对跨文化交流的理论研究具有重要意义。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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