Editing J-pop (section)

{{Short description|Japanese popular music genre}}
{{redirect|Japanese popular music|Japanese popular culture|Japanese popular culture}}
{{Infobox music genre
| name              = J-pop
| image             = Japanese music icon.png
| caption           = Japanese music icon
| stylistic_origins = {{hlist|[[Pop music|Pop]]|[[group sounds]]|[[Crossover music|crossover]]}}
| cultural_origins  = Nominally 1980s&ndash;early 1990s Japan; <br /> Roots traced to the 1960s&ndash;1970s
| subgenrelist      =
| derivatives       = {{hlist|[[Anime song]]|[[Japanese hip hop]]}}
| subgenres         = {{hlist|[[City pop]]|[[Eurobeat#J-Euro|J-Euro]]<ref>Keizai, Kokusai & Zaidan, Kōryū (cont.) "Japan Spotlight: Economy, Culture & History, Volume 23". Page 24 (Ng Wai-ming: "The Rise of J-Pop in Asia and Its Impact"). Japan Economic Foundation & the University of California. 2004. Quote: "JAPANESE pop music is commonly I referred to as "J-pop", a term coined by [[Tetsuya Komuro|Komuro Tetsuya]], the "father of J-pop", in the early 1990s. The meaning of J-pop has never been clear. It was first limited to Euro-beat, the kind of dance music that Komuro produced. However, it was later also applied to many other kinds of popular music in the Japanese music chart, Oricon, including idol-pop, rhythm and blues (R&B), folk, soft rock, easy listening and sometimes even hip hop."</ref>|[[technopop]]}}
| fusiongenres      = {{hlist||[[Kawaii metal]]}}
| regional_scenes   = [[Shibuya-kei]]
| other_topics      = {{hlist|[[Enka]]|[[image song]]|[[Japanese idol]]|[[Japanese rock]]|[[Para&nbsp;Para]]|''[[Super Eurobeat]]''|[[Vocaloid]]}}
}}

'''J-pop''' (often stylized in [[all caps]]; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as {{nihongo|''pops''|ポップス|poppusu}}, is the name for a form of [[popular music]] that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional [[music of Japan]], and significantly in [[1960s in music|1960s]] [[pop music|pop]] and [[rock music]]. J-pop replaced ''[[kayōkyoku]]'' ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene.<ref name="ctv">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ctv.co.jp/otov/column13.html|language=ja|title=J-POPって何だろう？そして今、改めて歌謡曲の魅力とは？|publisher=[[Chūkyō Television Broadcasting]]|year=2008|access-date=2009-10-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312033942/http://www.ctv.co.jp/otov/column13.html|archive-date=2009-03-12}}</ref>

[[Japanese rock]] bands such as [[Happy End (band)|Happy End]] fused [[the Beatles]] and [[Beach Boys]]-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s{{ndash}}1970s.<ref name="beatles">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/25384/|script-title=ja:究極のビートルズ来日賞味法！ ビートルズが日本に与えたもの|publisher=Oricon|date=2006-06-21|language=ja|access-date=2009-01-09}}</ref> J-pop was further defined by [[New wave music|new wave]] and [[Crossover music|crossover]] [[Jazz fusion|fusion]] acts of the late 1970s, such as [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] and [[Southern All Stars]].<ref name="whonejp">{{cite web|url=http://idol.who.ne.jp/modules/page05/content/index.php?id=10 |title=New Music |publisher=Who.ne.jp |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603164729/http://idol.who.ne.jp/modules/page05/content/index.php?id=10 |archive-date=June 3, 2009 |access-date=2011-06-13 |url-status=bot: unknown}} ()</ref> Popular styles of Japanese pop music include [[city pop]] and [[technopop]] during the 1970s{{ndash}}1980s, and [[Eurobeat#J-Euro|J-Euro]] (such as [[Namie Amuro]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artist.cdjournal.com/d/-/1195120551|title=Namie Amuro / Dance Tracks Vol. 1|work=CD Journal|access-date=Jan 29, 2020}}</ref> and [[Shibuya-kei]] during the 1990s and 2000s.

[[Country music#Japan and Asia|Japanese country]] had popularity during the international popularity of [[Western (genre)|Westerns]] in the 1960s{{ndash}}1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like [[Charlie Nagatani]] and [[Tomi Fujiyama]], along with venues like [[Little Texas (Tokyo restaurant)|Little Texas]] in [[Tokyo]].<ref name="Opry">{{cite web | title=Charlie Nagatani | website=Opry | url=https://www.opry.com/artists/charlie-nagatani | access-date=October 14, 2022}}</ref><ref name="NPR.org 2015">{{cite web | title=Finding A Little Texas ... In The Heart Of Tokyo | website=NPR.org | date=October 19, 2015 | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/19/446226611/finding-a-little-texas-in-the-heart-of-tokyo | access-date=October 14, 2022}}</ref> [[Japanese hip hop]] became mainstream with producer [[Nujabes]] during the 1990s–2000s, especially his work on ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'',<ref name="Ryan " 2017">{{cite web | author=Ryan " | title=How a Samurai Anime Made a Japanese Producer a Hip-Hop Household Name | website=DJBooth | date=August 1, 2017 | url=https://djbooth.net/features/2017-08-01-samurai-anime-japanese-producer-household-name | access-date=October 14, 2022}}</ref> and [[Japanese pop culture]] is often seen with [[anime in hip hop]].<ref name="Capitao 2019">{{cite web | last=Capitao | first=Brian | title=How Anime Made Its Way Into Hip Hop | website=The Freeze with Tyler Mclaurin and Brian Capitao | date=June 3, 2019 | url=https://deepfreezechillin.com/2019/06/03/how-anime-made-its-way-into-hip-hop/ | access-date=October 14, 2022}}</ref> In addition, [[Latin music]], [[contemporary Christian music|CCM]], and [[gospel music]] have scenes within J-pop.<ref name="Thompson-Hernández 2019">{{cite web | last=Thompson-Hernández | first =Walter | title=How My Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan | website=New York Times | date=February 19, 2019 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/style/how-my-southeast-la-culture-got-to-japan.html | access-date=October 14, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Minako 2013 pp. 187–213">{{cite journal | last=Minako | first=Waseda | title=Gospel Music in Japan: Transplantation and Localization of African American Religious Singing | journal=Yearbook for Traditional Music | publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) | volume=45 | year=2013 | issn=0740-1558 | doi=10.5921/yeartradmusi.45.2013.0187 | pages=187–213| s2cid=192821070 }}</ref>