KayÅkyoku
Kayōkyoku (Japanese歌 謡 曲; pop ) is a musical genre in Japan, which was created in the 1920s and is the predecessor of the J-pop genre. The Japan Times describes Kayōkyoku as the standard at that time the Japanese pop music.
Information
The music direction Kayōkyoku has its inspiration from the west -Japanese music.
Unlike the J-pop artists like the singer Keisuke Kuwata of Southern All Stars, artists use the genre Kayōkyoku no stylized pronunciations and spellings that have their focus on the English language. In this respect, the focus is the Kayōkyoku on the traditional Japanese language. However, there are exceptions such as Momoe Yamaguchi, they named a song, for example, Rock ' n ' Roll Widow.
Also from the Japanese enka music, the Kayōkyoku differs by not emotional effort during the song, forcing.
Famous Kayōkyoku artists are: Kyu Sakamoto, The Peanuts, The Tigers, Candies, Pink Lady, Seiko Matsuda, Junko Sakurada, The Checkers and Onyanko Club.
History
The term Kayōkyoku also referred to the classical art song in Japan. To 1927, the radio broadcaster NHK began to rename the genre in Kayōkyoku. Many other Japanese music genres and songs from the Kayōkyoku however, were lost during the Second World War, the people connects painful memories with it.
The Kayōkyoku era flourished in Japan between 1950-1960 to as mood Kayō and from 1970 to the 1980s as an idol - Kayō. The tuning Kayō era was influenced by Latin American music and jazz music. The Idol Kayō era, however, was influenced by several different genres.
The decline of the Kayōkyoku is often set to 1989 the year of death of Hibari Misora and the setting of a decade running television show, The Best Ten.