Great insight into the mentality and social conventions of the era - here, in Australia, we weren't any better! Monkey dancing to pop music is exactly what an uptight society needs in order to let go.
Great backstory details & look forward to the 3rd installment! A few of my English students in Tokyo had attended one the concerts. Another one said, "I could hear the Beatles from my college dorm room in Suidobashi while I was studying. The sound was very big." When I then asked her if she had tried to get a ticket, she replied, "Oh no. I wasn't that type of girl." Her not going on to say that her thinking later changed, I was left to wonder if perhaps her mind still contained some of the poison that some media outlets -- or more likely her conservative & fearful parents -- had instilled.
When I'm finished with this long piece, I'm going to post an interview I did with a lady who attended three concerts out of five.
The mentality expressed by your student was typical of that period: young girls in Japan were not supposed to do such things as attending a rock concert with - god forbid - long-haired boys playing electric guitars.
Great insight into the mentality and social conventions of the era - here, in Australia, we weren't any better! Monkey dancing to pop music is exactly what an uptight society needs in order to let go.
How true! Unfortunately there's always someone who tries to impose his social dogmas on other people.
Great backstory details & look forward to the 3rd installment! A few of my English students in Tokyo had attended one the concerts. Another one said, "I could hear the Beatles from my college dorm room in Suidobashi while I was studying. The sound was very big." When I then asked her if she had tried to get a ticket, she replied, "Oh no. I wasn't that type of girl." Her not going on to say that her thinking later changed, I was left to wonder if perhaps her mind still contained some of the poison that some media outlets -- or more likely her conservative & fearful parents -- had instilled.
When I'm finished with this long piece, I'm going to post an interview I did with a lady who attended three concerts out of five.
The mentality expressed by your student was typical of that period: young girls in Japan were not supposed to do such things as attending a rock concert with - god forbid - long-haired boys playing electric guitars.