E Taylor Atkins

Blue Nippon

Authenticating Jazz in Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327103
• ISBN-10: 0822327104
• Artikelnr.: 21164166

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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