There are some genres of music that Japan excels in. Recently, acts here have been appropriating the dance music styles of dubstep and juke to create a sound that feels like a real contribution to the global music scene. Before all this, though, there was noise.
Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, by David Novak, Duke University Press
In "Japanoise," author David Novak delves into the music genre called noise — more specifically, this country's brand of Japanoise — to explain how it thrived in the underground music scene here and unintentionally became a product that represents Japan overseas.