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.