, often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of
Japanese rock music
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which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese ''
kayōkyoku
is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop. ''The Japan Times'' described ''kayōkyoku'' as "standard Japanese pop" or " Shōwa-era pop".
''Kayōkyoku'' represents a blend of Western and Japanese musical scales. Music i ...
'' music and Western rock music.
Their music production techniques were regarded as playing a pioneering role in modern Japanese popular music.
Group sounds arose following the
Beatles performance at the Budokan in 1966, and was strongly influenced by British beat music of the 1960s.
Group sounds acts included the
Tigers
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, the
Tempters, the
Spiders
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, the
Mops
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, and the
Golden Cups.
[ The movement peaked in late 1967 when ]Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets
Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets ( ) is a Japanese J-pop-rock band, active from 1957.
History of the band
The band formed in 1957 just as The Blue Comets. In 1963 they renamed "Jackie Yoshikawa and the Blue Comets" with Jackie Yoshikawa se ...
won the Japan Record Award
is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association. Until 2005, the show aired on New Year's Eve, but has since aired every December 30 on TBS Japan at 6:30 P.M JST a ...
.
See also
* Music of Japan
In Japan, music includes a wide array of distinct genres, both traditional and modern. The word for "music" in Japanese language, Japanese is 音楽 (''ongaku''), combining the kanji 音 ''on'' (sound) with the kanji 楽 ''gaku'' (music, comfort). ...
* J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1 ...
* Visual kei
is a movement among Japanese musicians that is characterized by the use of varying levels of make-up, elaborate hair styles and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics, similar to Western glam rock.
Som ...
* Japanese hip hop
Japanese hip hop is hip hop music from Japan. It is said to have begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip hop records in the early 1980s. Japanese hip hop tends to be most directly influenced by old school hip hop, ...
* Japanese jazz
Japanese jazz is jazz played by Japanese musicians and connected to Japan or Japanese culture. The term often refers to the history of jazz in Japan, which has the largest proportion of jazz fans in the world, according to some estimates. Attempts ...
* Japanese reggae
Japanese reggae is reggae music originating from Japan. The first reggae band to perform in Japan was The Pioneers who toured in 1975. However it was not until 1979, when Jamaican singer Bob Marley visited Japan on holiday that reggae would gain ...
* Japanese ska
Japanese ska is ska music made in Japan. It is, along with its counterparts elsewhere in the world, part of what has been called the "third wave of ska hatcombines the traditional Jamaican Club sound with metal, punk, folk, funk, and/or country. ...
* List of Japanese rock bands
The following is a list of notable Japanese rock bands and artists. For an extended list of J-Pop artists, see List of J-pop artists.
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* Enka
is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern ''enka'', however, is a relatively recent musical form, which adopts a more traditional musical style in its vocalism than ''ryūkōka'' music, p ...
* Ryūkōka
is a Japanese music genre, musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the East Asian cultural sphere, sinic reading of ''hayariuta'', used for commercial music of Edo period, Edo Period. Therefore, ...
References
External links
Cutie Morning Moon
- Dedicated to Japanese 1960s garage punk
Showapop
- Group Sounds Record & CD articles in English
- Provides Information Mostly About Garage Bands From Outside the United States
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