Shonen Knife-an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan-cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.
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Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is an Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. USA. She specializes in opera of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, film music, and the music of modern Japan. In addition to numerous articles and Shonen Knife's Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll (2020), McCorkle Okazaki is the co-author of Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema (2018). In the 2019-2020 academic year, she received a Japan Foundation Fellowship to complete her monograph Searching for Wagner in Japan.
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1. Every Shonen Knife Has a Beginning
2. Rock Animals: Feminism and Popular Music in Japan
3. Happy Hour Time
4. All You Can Eat: Food and Music on Happy Hour
5. Peel and See: Nara Yoshitomo and "Banana Chips"
6. Rockin' Ramen