The music will set you free : Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the road to freedom in Occupied Japan
Mapping Misora Hibari : where have all the Asians gone?
Mystery plane : Sakamoto Kyu and the translations of rockabilly
Working within the system : group sounds and the commercial and revolutionary potential of noise
New music and the negation of the negation : Happy End, Arai Yumi, and Yellow Magic Orchestra
The Japan that can "say yes" : bubblegum music in a postbubble economy.
Sayonara Amerika, sayonara Nippon : a geopolitical prehistory of J-pop by Michael K. Bourdaghs. ISBN 9780231158756. Published by Columbia University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.