“They barely had accepted Elvis and the other ones, and they weren’t too sure about accepting a teenage girl singing this kind of music.” 1, The song’s lyrics are usually cited by critics as the main reason for both its success in Japan and its failure in the United States.

This is particularly true of the women who continued the blues tradition in the postwar period. Milburn (final verse): Yeah, she’s a little bitty mama who needs a whole lot of room She’s a little bitty mama who needs a whole lot of room She can ignite your rockets and lead you onto the moon Hayes (final verse): Well I’m a little bitty mama, I don’t need a whole lot of roomYeah, teeny, weeny mama, don’t need a whole lot of roomIf I ignite your rockets, I’ll shoot you to the moon.

The story of “Fujiyama Mama” begins nearly four years before Wanda Jackson took it into the recording studio. For $700 a week, she began performing anywhere from two to five shows per day.

The options available to a woman in rock and roll are especially constrictive, for this musical discourse is typically characterized by a phallic backbeat.”7 In other words, the presence of sexism the music industry—and women’s strategies for negotiating this field where they lack power—is distinct from the ways that gender is encoded into or represented by the music itself. Additionally, male record company executives and employees frequently had at least some, if not full, control over song selection, arrangements, and even nuances of performance—and if they were not pleased with the final product, it was their prerogative to prevent its release or promotion.

We cannot, however, take it for granted that a given recording represents the unmediated artistic expression of the performer herself. By this time, Allen had nearly a decade-long history of confronting trade journal reviewers with racy lyrics. The highest peak, 3,776 m (12,388 ft), in Japan, in central Honshu west-southwest of Tokyo.

But Japan found me in ’59 and made this song number one for a whole summer.

A large venue, like those in Tokyo’s Ginza district, might employ eighty women as hostesses and waitresses and several hundred performers.63 After the outlawing of public prostitution, however, most of the comfort women who worked for the RAA were subsequently sent off without any additional reimbursement, many infected with syphilis or gonorrhea.64 This was by no means the end of all prostitution. An almost perfectly symmetrical snow-capped volcanic cone, it is a sacred mountain and pilgrimage site.

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The nightclub scene catering to GIs, however, continued through the Occupation and beyond its official end. . The record may well have been the result of her label’s A&R man going hunting for repertoire that would capitalize both on demand for more novelty tunes from Barton and on the growing popularity of rhythm and blues.

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Ruth Solie, in her landmark analysis of Robert Schumann’s Frauenlieben und -leben song cycle—settings of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso that chronicle a female protagonist’s betrothal, marriage, maternity, and emotional inability to cope with widowhood—has cautioned that the expression of fantasies constructed by men but expressed through the voice of a female singer might falsely “convey the authority of experience,” thereby creating an “impersonation of a woman by the voices of male culture, a spurious autobiographical act.”8. Several recordings were in circulation, including one by Harry Belafonte, and another by a popular female Japanese singer named Cheimi Eri. Some enterprising Japanese musicians sought to make a living by performing American music for American soldiers; the GIs themselves also wrote and performed lyrics about their experiences as military men in a foreign country, and these songs offer detailed descriptions of eating Japanese food, observing Japanese culture, and courting Japanese women. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Japanese artists frequently covered GI songs in much the same way that they covered other types of American music—even when the lyrics were less-than-flattering portrayals of their culture.52 This music, both in the original versions and in the Japanese covers, also featured the same kinds of stereotyped musical Orientalisms as Annisteen Allen’s recording of “Fujiyama Mama.” A comparison of the lyrics of GI songs from this period to “Fujiyama Mama” reveals a number of additional similarities; at least one scholar of Japanese popular music has mistaken the Jack Hammer’s composition for a bona fide GI song.53 While this does not appear to be the case, the influence of GI songs can help to contextualize the verses of “Fujiyama Mama” that depict drinking, smoking, and shooting. I just think the cultural changes that must have taken place for this song (or anything American), to become so popular, are pretty fascinating.