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Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro

Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro

Hara, Kunio
Manabe, Noriko

Paperback

Series: 33 1/3 Japan

Film StudiesMusic TheoryWorld Music

ISBN10: 1501345125
ISBN13: 9781501345128
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 6 2020
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. A crucial step in the two artists' collaboration was the creation of the album, My Neighbor Totoro: Image Song Collection, with lyrics penned by Miyazaki and Nakagawa Rieko, a famed children's book author, and music composed by Hisaishi. The album, released in 1987 prior to the opening of the film, served not only as a promotional product, but also provided Miyazaki with concrete ideas about the characters and the themes of the film. This book investigates the extent to which Hisaishi's music shaped Miyazaki's vision by examining the relationship between the images created by Miyazaki and the music composed by Hisaishi, with special emphasis on their approaches to nostalgia, one of the central themes of the film

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