{"id":30207,"date":"2013-04-07T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30207"},"modified":"2013-04-07T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:09:06","slug":"nihon-ny-episode-30-jero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30207","title":{"rendered":"Nihon NY &#8211; Episode 30 &#8211; JERO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pIzS8bvzjWg\" target=\"_blank\">Nihon NY &#8211; Episode 30 &#8211; JERO<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/JapanSocietyNYC?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Society NYC<\/a><br \/>\n2012-06-18<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh-native, Tokyo-based <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enka\" target=\"_blank\">enka<\/a> superstar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jero\" target=\"_blank\">JERO<\/a> made his New York debut at Japan Society earlier this month. With his smooth voice and hip-hop stylings, JERO has breathed new life into this sentimental Japanese music genre often associated with themes of one\u2019s hometown, lost loves and sake. Often referred to as the Japanese blues or Japanese country music, enka\u2019s melodies and required vocal techniques make it a quintessentially Japanese musical style. Since releasing his debut single <em>Umiyuki<\/em> (<em>Ocean Snow<\/em>) in 2008, JERO has received the Japan Record Awards Best New Artist award and has appeared on Japan\u2019s most prestigious New Year\u2019s music spectacular Kohaku Uta Gassen. In this intimate evening, JERO will talk with the incomparable Japan expert and Japan Society\u2019s former Executive Vice President John Wheeler, about his relationship with the Japanese world of enka and serenade audiences with his own original songs as well as enka classics including those of Misora Hibari (\u7f8e\u7a7a \u3072\u3070\u308a) and Itsuki Hiroshi (\u4e94\u6728\u3072\u308d\u3057) among others.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of Nihon NY, we feature snippets of his performance at our venue, as well as an interview about his origins and his career as an enka singer.<\/p>\n<p>The song names in order of appearance:<br \/>\n1. Umiyuki\u3000\uff08\u6d77\u96ea\uff09<br \/>\n2. Harebutai\u3000\uff08\u6674\u308c\u821e\u53f0\uff09<br \/>\n3. Yuki Guni\u3000\uff08\u96ea\u56fd\uff09<br \/>\n4. Tsugaru Heiya\u3000\uff08\u6d25\u8efd\u5e73\u91ce\uff09<br \/>\n5. Suki Yaki \uff08\u4e0a\u3092\u5411\u3044\u3066\u6b69\u3053\u3046\uff09<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIzS8bvzjWg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Interview begins at 00:11:29.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nihon NY &#8211; Episode 30 &#8211; JERO Japan Society NYC 2012-06-18 Pittsburgh-native, Tokyo-based enka superstar JERO made his New York debut at Japan Society earlier this month. With his smooth voice and hip-hop stylings, JERO has breathed new life into this sentimental Japanese music genre often associated with themes of one\u2019s hometown, lost loves and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,8,842],"tags":[1793,14314,5604,5671,14315,1392],"class_list":["post-30207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-japan","tag-japan-society-nyc","tag-jero","tag-jerome-charles-white","tag-jerome-charles-white-jr","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}