"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
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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