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Etymology edit

Blend of Japanese +‎ noise

Noun edit

Japanoise (uncountable)

  1. (music) A genre of postindustrial music of Japan, primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
    • 2021 [2001], Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl, editors, Excursions in World Music, 8th edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 204:
      While we allow the sounds of Japanoise to challenge our ears, this practice of sound-making reveals not only the limits of origin stories, but also the limits of the concept of “ongaku,” []

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