学会発表：2011：

Burton Crane’s recordings in Japan from 1931 to 1933:
The influence of American music on 1930s Japanese musical tastes

International Association for Study of Popular Music, US Branch (IASPM-US):
Cincinnati 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 9 March-13 March, 2011.
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Burton Crane's recordings in Japan from 1931 to 1933:
The influence of American music on 1930s Japanese musical tastes

Hrumichi YAMADA, Professor, Tokyo Keizai University

Tokyo Keizai University, 185-8502, Japan
yamada@tku.ac.jp


Burton Crane (1901-1963) was the first successful American singer who sang in Japanese. Singing in Japanese, Crane recorded 34 sides on 78rpm discs. While the last 2 sides (1 disc) were recorded for Teichiku in 1935, the bulk of his songs were recorded between 1931-1933 for Columbia Japan. His recordings include solos, duets with female Japanese vocalists, and comical monologues incorporating fragments of Japanese songs.
While some of his songs were Japanese melodies -- either traditional or penned by Japanese composers -- 24 pieces, or three quarter of the songs he recorded, were apparently Western -- mostly American-melodies. Only four of those songs credit the original composers. Others list Crane's name as the composer, or simply do not list any composer at all. So far, I have been able to trace the original English versions of 14 of Crane’s improperly credited songs, but 6 songs remain a mystery.
Crane’s recorded 18 Japanese language renditions of western songs, including "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", "Li'l Liza Jane", "Hinky Dinky Parley Voo ", "Show Me the Way to Go Home", and "Get Out and Get Under the Moon", which were all popular in North America during the 1920s and 1930s.
Crane’s music boosted enthusiasm for American "jazz" music in Japan. His success resulted in the early 1930s boom in Nisei singers, whose repertoire remained popular until the late 1930s, when American-influenced music went out of favor in Japan with the onset of the war.

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