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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges support for the open-access edition of this book from the MIT Libraries.

An earlier version of chapter 2 was published as “Ambient Landscapes from Brian Eno to Tetsu Inoue,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 21, no. 4 (2009): 364–83. Portions of chapters 5 and 6 were previously published as “Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm: Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction,” Journal of Japanese Studies 35, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 87–111.

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