Japanese Rock and Pop summer festivals

Description:

In the news article, Rock and pop: The A, B, C's ofJ-music, Mark Jarnes discusses a number of summer music festivals held throughout several prefectures of Japan. The Peaceful Love Rock Festival starts off the month of July with styles such as indie and old fashioned rock and roll. Throughout the rest of July and August, for the short amount of time summer holds, as many shows as possible were given presenting the Japanese rock style. Rock in Japan is a very interesting festival because of the various musical genres it covers. J-pop, J-rock, and numerous others styles of J-Music were presented in this festival including bands, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, and Auto-Tune sensation Perfume who have completely different styles (Jarnes 1).

Evaluation:

For the Rock in Japan festival Jarnes declares, “…this festival is for those who want to get completely up to date with the local music scene in three days of J-bliss"(Jarnes 1). This may be an article for one who would be interested in attending the festivals, or may just be fascinated in forms of J-music. Jarnes article is very informational due to detailed descriptions containing dates and locations of all the summer festivals.