Blue Nippon - Authenticating Jazz in Japan

"This is a powerful gem of a book. Atkins's mixing of voices is wonderful and his scholarship impressive. Moreover, his complex argument is communicated in language that is straightforward, engaging, and compelling."--Christine Yano, University of Hawaii, Manoa

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prelude: Plenty Plenty Soul

1. The Japanese Jazz Artist and the Authenticity Complex

2. The Soundtrack of Modern Life: Japan’s Jazz Revolution

3. Talkin’ Jazz: Music, Modernism, and Interwar Japan’s Culture Wars

4. “Jazz for the Country’s Sake”: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan

5. Bop, Funk, Junk, and That Old Democracy Boogie: The Jazz Tribes of Postwar Japan

6. Our Thing: Defining “Japanese Jazz”

Postlude: J-Jazz and the Fin de Siecle Blues

Notes

References

Discography

Index

About the author

E. Taylor Atkins is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University.

Summary

Japan's jazz community - both musicians and audience - has been begrudgingly recognised for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. This title shows how, strangely, Japan's own attitude toward jazz is founded on this same ambivalence about its authenticity. It explores the true and legitimate nature of Japanese jazz.

Product details

• Authors: ATKINS, E Taylor Atkins, E. Taylor Atkins, Taylor Atkins, E. Tayloratkins
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780822327103
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2710-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Weight: 916 g
• Illustrations: 17 b&w photos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Jazz, Japan, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen