This talk introduces the topic of Japanese sheet music cover design from 1920-1950 as the nexus of visual art, film, and popular song. It posits the humble, disposable and seemingly obscure music sheet as perhaps the most sensitive lens for capturing modern popular arts in Japan during the tumultuous period before, during and just after WWII. The lecture includes snippets of Japanese music and film.
Kendall Brown
Kendall Brown is Emeritus Professor of Asian Art History in the Art Department at California State University Long Beach. An art historian, he has published and curated widely on Japanese art as well as on Japanese-style gardens in North America. In 2024 for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he guest curated the exhibition, Songs for Modern Japan: The Art of Japanese Sheet Music, 1905- 1950.
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