Adaptation Sources Blog Post

1. Genre
    
   Wikipedia. (2015, February 8). Never My Love. Retrieved from Wikipedia website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_My_Love
    
   This article introduce about the song, brief history, and the description. This song was released in 1967 by the Association, an American pop-rock band from California. The song was categorized as Baroque pop / sunshine pop.
    
   Wikipedia. (2015, February 13). The Association. Retrieved from Wikipedia website:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Association
    
   This article shows that the history of The Association, including their discography. In 1967, they released Never My Love as the double-sided charted record. Never My Love went to No. 2 in Billboard and No. 1 in Cash Box in October 1967.
    
   BARKS: JAPAN MUSIC NETWORK. (2013, October 12). Retrieved from BARKS website: http://www.barks.jp/news/
    
   This article announced that Never My Love would be remade by Japanese singer and briefly described new song’s genres. There is a long relationship between the song and the Japanese artist’s company, so they try to remake the song. This article also describes about the Japanese artist. Their name is A.B.C-Z. Their specialty is  acrobatic performance, so the new version of Never My Love are adopted for them to do acrobatic performance.
2. Social History
   Gloag, K. (2001). Situating the 1960s: Popular Music- Postmodernism –History. Cardiff University, UK.
   This article focuses on the relationship between postmodernism and American society in 1960s. In this generation, increasing the diversity and styles made the context of popular music wider.
   
   
   Chrisman, E. (2011). The ‘60s. Billboard, 123(7), 39-40.
   This article provides a brief record of music history in 1960s. It mentions that 1960s was the period that the sounds were the most creative, experimental and acclaimed.
   Mori,Y. (2009). J-pop: from the ideology of creativity to DiY music culture. Tokyo University of Arts, Tokyo, 120-0034, Japan.
   This article provides analyses of alternation of Japanese music culture. It focuses on its ideological formation. The thesis discusses about the relationship between changing of Japanese music culture and the society, technology development, economy, and people’s habits. The author mentions that development of economic and social conditions have big effects on Japanese music culture.
   
   
   CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: CULTURE AND SOCIETY. (n.d.) from ASIAN TOPICS:  http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/at_japan_soc/
   This article mentions that Japanese globalization has big effects on Japanese popular culture, including music culture. It also provides the information that Japan’s popular culture has excelled in portability.