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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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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roquet, Paul.
Ambient media : Japanese atmospheres of self / Paul Roquet.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4529-4547-7
1. Mass media—Japan. 2. Mass media—Philosophy. 3. Space and time in mass media. I. Title.
P92.J3R67 2015
302.23'0952—dc232014046943
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