Japanese rokabiri

In recent years the fashion for Japanese invention, gaining high speed - cars, sushi, Murakami and karaoke, and so on. This list is quite large. One of the items of the list is a new trend - the Japanese rock music - rokabiri - American rock in the Japanese way.

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1) After the Second World War, the Japanese followed closely the new trends in Western culture. One of these new trends appeared American rock 'n' roll (rockabilly), who conquered Japan in the mid 50s.





2) "Fathers" were rockabilly Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis. A Japanese followers simply perepevali songs of their idols.



3) An interesting fact is that the Japanese call this direction of music is not rockabilly and rokabiri, as representatives of the nation of the rising sun just do not pronounce the letter "l".



4) These guys are very similar to bikers and punks, but it is not. Going to parks in Japan, they sing and dance to a rock 'n roll 50s.



5) Early Japanese rockers began with a performance of country and western music in groups.



6) It is often possible to see the members of this subculture in the streets of Japanese cities.



7) They are easy to recognize - lubricated head of hair gel, a la Elvis Presley and leather jacket, hiding powerful tattoo.



8) The most brilliant stars rokabiri 50: Masaaki Hirano, Keydziro Yamashita and Mickey Curtis.



9) By the way, you can see how the Japanese made a joke on rockers Quentin Tarantino in "Kill Bill."



10) First, truly original, Japanese rock song was "Hoshi wa Nandemo shite-iru" ("Stars know everything").



11) In June 1966, The Beatles came to Japan, and had a marked influence on the Japanese rock-n-roll. There was even a group called The Tokyo Beatles, who did cover versions of songs of the Fab Four.



12) Japanese rockers have invented the term - «visual kei», («visual style"). «Visual kei» - to attract the attention of people not only in music, but also appearance.



13) Much of the style of Japanese rockers borrowed is now fashionable Emo culture.



14) are shocked and surprised - that's the main representatives of modern fad rokabiri.



15) Culture rokabiri so influenced the young people, the Japanese government decided to ban public performances, protecting public morals.



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