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Enka and J-pop

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Difference between Enka and J-pop

Enka vs. J-pop

is a popular Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

Similarities between Enka and J-pop

Enka and J-pop have 45 things in common (in Unionpedia): Akina Nakamori, Blues, Boogie-woogie, Elvis Presley, Group Sounds, Guitar, Hibari Misora, JANJAN, Japan, Japan Composer's Association, Japan Record Awards, Japanese idol, Jazz, Johnny & Associates, Kanjani Eight, Kayōkyoku, Kōhaku Uta Gassen, Keiko Fuji, Kyu Sakamoto, Meiji period, Morning Musume, Music of Japan, Nana Mizuki, NHK, Nikkei Business Publications, Nishinippon Shimbun, Onna no Michi, Onyanko Club, Oricon, Pentatonic scale, ..., Rock music, Rockabilly, Ryūkōka, Shiro Miya, Singing, Sukiyaki (song), Taishō period, Takuro Yoshida, Thailand, The Japan Times, Toshiba, United States, Violin, Yujiro Ishihara, 12th Japan Record Awards. Expand index (15 more) »

Akina Nakamori

is a Japanese pop singer and actress.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Group Sounds

Group Sounds, often abbreviated as G.S. or G-Sound, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hibari Misora

was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon.

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JANJAN

JANJAN, short for Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures, was a Japanese online newspaper started by Ken Takeuchi, journalist and former mayor of Kamakura, Kanagawa.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan Composer's Association

The Japan Composer's Association, or JACOMPA (日本作曲家協会 in Japanese) is an organization of Japanese composers, established in 1959.

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Japan Record Awards

is a major music awards show that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association in a manner similar to the American Grammy Awards, held annually in Japan.

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Japanese idol

In Japanese pop culture is a term typically used to refer to young manufactured stars/starlets marketed to be admired for their cuteness.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Johnny & Associates

is a Japanese talent agency, formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which trains and promotes groups of male entertainers known as.

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Kanjani Eight

is a seven-member Japanese boy band from Japan's Kansai region.

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Kayōkyoku

is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop.

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Kōhaku Uta Gassen

, more commonly known as simply Kōhaku, which official translation is "Year-end Song Festival", is an annual music show on New Year's Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK network and by some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program.

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Keiko Fuji

(5 July 1951 – 22 August 2013), known primarily by the stage name was a Japanese enka singer and actress.

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Kyu Sakamoto

was a Japanese singer and actor, best known outside Japan for his international hit song "Ue o Muite Arukō" (known as "Sukiyaki" in English-speaking markets), which was sung in Japanese and sold over 13 million copies.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Morning Musume

, formerly simply and colloquially referred to as, is a Japanese female idol group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an amount of 64, and they have sold over 21 million copies in Japan alone.

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Music of Japan

The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern.

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Nana Mizuki

is a Japanese voice actress and singer represented by the agency Sigma Seven.

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NHK

is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.

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Nikkei Business Publications

, commonly known as, is a book and magazine publisher based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Nishinippon Shimbun

The is a Japanese language daily newspaper published by the.

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Onna no Michi

is the debut single by Shiro Miya & Pinkara Trio released on May 10, 1972 in Japan.

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Onyanko Club

was a large all-girl Japanese pop idol group in the 1980s.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Ryūkōka

is a Japanese musical genre.

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Shiro Miya

was a Japanese enka singer, lyricist and composer.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sukiyaki (song)

is a Japanese-language song that was performed by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, and written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura.

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Taishō period

The, or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō.

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Takuro Yoshida

is a Japanese male singer-songwriter.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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Toshiba

, commonly known as Toshiba, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Yujiro Ishihara

was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.

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12th Japan Record Awards

The 12th Japan Record Awards took place at the Imperial Garden Theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, on December 31, 1970, starting at 7:00PM JST.

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Enka and J-pop Comparison

Enka has 196 relations, while J-pop has 479. As they have in common 45, the Jaccard index is 6.67% = 45 / (196 + 479).

References

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