Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll

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• List of Images and Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Itadakimasu! (Let's Eat!)
• 1. Girl Bands and Josei Rock, 1950s-1980s
• 2. Food, Gender, and Music in Postwar Japan
• 3. Shonen Knife's Songs in the Key of Food
• 4. Konnichiwa!: An Introduction to Happy Hour (1998) and its Cover Art
• 5. Happy Hour: Food, Music, and Transnational Flow
• 6. The Delicious Banality of "Banana Chips"
• 7. Sweet Candy Power: Shonen Knife and Their Josei Rock Legacy Notes Bibliography Discography Index