Shonen Knife's Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll
Author: McCorkle Okazaki, Brooke
ISBN: 9781501347948
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 08 Apr 2021
Pages: 176 Format: Paperback / softback
Shonen Knife an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.
ISBN: 9781501347948
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 08 Apr 2021
Pages: 176 Format: Paperback / softback
Shonen Knife an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.
