Blue Nippon - Authenticating Jazz in Japan

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.

Product details

• Authors: E Taylor Atkins, E. Taylor Atkins
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780822327219
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2721-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 232 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries