33-1/3 Japan

I serve as the Series Editor for the new 33-1/3 Japan Series at Bloomsbury Publishing. The book series is patterned after Bloomsbury's 33-1/3 series and is part of the new 33-1/3 Global series.

Read more about 33-1/3 Japan on the 33-1/3 blog, 333sound.com:

• New Series Announcement: 33 1/3 Global, August 9, 2017

• Supercell ft. Hatsune Miku, Keisuke Yamada, August 17, 2017

• 33 1/3 Global Editor Highlight: Noriko Manabe, August 31, 2017

Our books are:

• Supercell ft. Hatsune Miku by Keisuke Yamada, pub. August 2017.

• Yoko Kanno's Cowboy Bebop by Rose Bridges, pub. November 2017 

• Perfume's GAME by Patrick St. Michel, pub. February 2018 

• Cornelius's Fantasma by Martin Roberts, pub. Nov 2019

• AKB48 by Patrick Galbraith and Jason Karlin, pub. Oct 2019. 

• Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro by Kunio Hara, pub. Feb 2020.

• Shōnen Knife's Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll by Brooke McCorkle, pub. Feb 2021. 

• Nene's Koza Dabasa: Okinawa in the World Music Market by Henry Johnson, pub. Feb 2021. 

• Yūming's The 14th Moon by Lasse Lehtonen, pub. July 2022. 

• Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun by E. Taylor Atkins, in press, pub. Nov 2024. 

• SOB's Don't Be Swindle, by Mahon Murphy and Ran Zwigenberg, in press, pub. Feb 2025. 

• Yellow Magic Orchestra: Afro Asia, Game Music, and Techno-Orientalism by Toshiyuki Ohwada, under contract.

• Kōhaku utagassen: The Red and White Song Contest by Shelley Brunt, under contract. 

The board of 33-1/3 Japan includes Marié Abe, Michael Bourdaghs, Shelley Brunt, Kevin Fellezs, Akitsugu Kawamoto, Yoshitaka Mōri, Dexter Thomas, and Christine Yano. 

To submit a proposal for the Japan series, please fill out this form and send it via email to info [at] norikomanabe [dot] com. Please include a sample chapter and a CV.  I encourage authors to discuss the proposal with me prior to submission; please send me an email at the address above.