'Love Never Dies': romance and Christian symbolism in a Japanese rock video

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    Stevens, Carolyn S.
    Date
    2004
    Source Title
    Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos and Aesthetic Industries
    Publisher
    RoutledgeCurzon
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Stevens, Carolyn
    Affiliation
    Arts: Asia Pacific Economics of Education and Training Unit (APEET)
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    Stevens, C. S. (2004). 'Love Never Dies': romance and Christian symbolism in a Japanese rock video. In A. Chun, N. Rossiter & B. Shoesmith (Eds.), Refashioning pop music in Asia: Cosmopolitan flows, political tempos and aesthetic industries, (pp. 127-144). Routledge Curzon.
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    Abstract
    This chapter examines the use of Christian symbolism in a Japanese rock music video by the group The Alfee. Christian icons are used to convey a perceived modern version of romance. Modernity is set in an indeterminate past, conflating the traditional and the modern into one visual concept that exists. The present and future encased in the past questions the notion of modernity (and postmodernity) in Japan as something necessarily sequential. It also argues that Christianity's secular presence in Japan allows its symbols to be freely manipulated and adapted in contemporary popular culture.
    Keywords
    Japan; rock music video; modernity

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