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Alex from the BeruBara Tag Boom joins the show to discuss the history and politics of an all-women musical theater based in Western Japan known as the Takarazuka Revue. We discuss the class politics of the Takarazuka Revue, particularly its ties to an Osaka-based private railway corporation called the Hankyu Corporation (now a subsidiary of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group), the development of railway infrastructure and the suburbanization of Osaka in the early twentieth century that created the revue's petty bourgeois or middle class audience base, as well as their children as a pool of future Takarazuka actors.We discuss the contradiction between the apparent queerness of the Takarazuka Revue and the conservative values it promotes, and the role Takarazua has played and continues to play in the reproduction of Japanese capitalism and imperialism since the revue's founding in the 1910s, through the rise of fascism in the 1930s and WWII, into the post-war period and the present day, and a correlation between the boom and bust cycle of capitalism on the one hand and the Takarazuka Music School's enrollment rate and the revue's overall popularity on the other. We conclude our discussion by asking whether the Takarazuka Revue is fundamentally a reactionary form of art or a potentially liberatory form of art that can convey revolutionary politics. Follow Alex on Twitter @NOAHs_SaviorWorks Mentioned:Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue by Leonie SticklandA History of the Takarazuka Revue Since 1914 by Makiko YamanashiOn the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis AlthusserIntro:  Cielo by Huma Huma Outro:  Youth Doesn't Need Roses by the Beauty PairSupport the show

Claude Michel-Lesne, spécialiste du théâtre musical japonais, fait la lumière sur un projet scénique unique au Japon et dans le monde. Site de la compagnie Takarazuka :https://kageki.hankyu.co.jp/english/index.htmlCrédits musicaux : © Takarazuka Kagekidan, usage loyal dans un but non lucratif d'éducation et de recherche.Classic Medley (A), adaptation des Danses polovtsiennes d'Aleksander Borodin, extrait du spectacle Wonderland, 2005, Snow Troupe.I Love Revue, extrait du spectacle The Revue '99, 1999, Aika Mire & Flower Troupe.Nazotoki no gêmu, extrait du spectacle The Scarlet Pimpernel, 2008, Yuzuki Reon & Toono Asuka (Star Troupe).Futatsu no ai, reprise de la chanson d'Henri Varna et Vincent Scotto. Extrait du spectacle Chanson d'amour, 1931, Miura Tokiko & Snow Troupe.Fantomu no fûga, extrait du spectacle Phantom, 2011, Flower Troupe.Victory, chanson-titre du spectacle Trafalgar, 2010, Ôzora Yûhi & Cosmos Troupe.Kurotokage no rakuen, extrait musical du spectacle Kurotokage : Akechi Kogorô no Jikenbô, 2007, Flower Troupe.As Time Goes By, extrait du spectacle Casablanca, 2009, Ôzora Yûhi & Cosmos Troupe.Tamashii no rufuran, reprise d'une chanson du film d'animation Evangelion : Death & Rebirth, extrait du spectacle Misty Station, 2012, Kiriya Hiromu & Moon Troupe.Give you up, reprise de la chanson de Rick Astley, extrait du dinner-show Starlight Fantasy, 1989, Suzukaze Mayo & Moon Troupe.Pour aller plus loin : Roland Domenig, “Takarazuka and Kobayashi Ichizō's idea of Kokumingeki”, in Sepp Linhart et Sabine Frühstück (dir.), The Culture of Japan as seen through its leisure, pp. 267-284, State University of New York Press, 1998. Claude Michel-Lesne, « La question de la mixité dans le théâtre Takarazuka : jeux d'ombre et de lumière », in Cipango : Cahiers d'études japonaises, n° 20, pp. 165-230, 2013. En ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/cipango/1944.Karen Nakamura et Hisako Matsuo, “Female masculinity and fantasy spaces: Transcending genders in the Takarazuka Theatre and Japanese popular culture”, in James E. Roberson et Nobue Suzuki (dir.), Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan – Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa, pp. 59-76, New York, Routledge, 2002.Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998. 278 p. Leonie R. Stickland, Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue, Trans Pacific Press, 2008. 281 p.

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan’s globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the yellow peril, and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan’s globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the yellow peril, and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan’s globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the yellow peril, and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States?... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan’s globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the yellow peril, and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan’s globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the yellow peril, and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States?... Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/japanese-studies

In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the yellow peril, and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.