Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan

by E. Taylor Atkins

Book Overview

Japan's jazz community--both musicians and audience--has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz "can't swing." In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japan's own attitude toward jazz is founded on this same ambivalence about its authenticity.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082232721X
• ISBN13: 9780822327219
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"