{"product_id":"blue-nippon-e-taylor-atkins-9780822327103","title":"Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eBlue Nippon\u003c\/i\u003e E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japan's own attitude toward jazz is founded on this same ambivalence about its authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\tEngagingly told through the voices of many musicians, \u003ci\u003eBlue Nippon\u003c\/i\u003e explores the true and legitimate nature of Japanese jazz. Atkins peers into 1920s dancehalls to examine the Japanese Jazz Age and reveal the origins of urban modernism with its new set of social mores, gender relations, and consumer practices. He shows how the interwar jazz period then became a troubling symbol of Japan's intimacy with the West--but how, even during the Pacific war, the roots of jazz had taken hold too deeply for the \"total jazz ban\" that some nationalists desired. While the allied occupation was a setback in the search for an indigenous jazz sound, Japanese musicians again sought American validation. Atkins closes out his cultural history with an examination of the contemporary jazz scene that rose up out of Japan's spectacular economic prominence in the 1960s and 1970s but then leveled off by the 1990s, as tensions over authenticity and identity persisted.\u003cbr\u003e\tWith its depiction of jazz as a transforming global phenomenon, \u003ci\u003eBlue Nippon\u003c\/i\u003e will make enjoyable reading not only for jazz fans worldwide but also for ethnomusicologists, and students of cultural studies, Asian studies, and modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. Taylor Atkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822327104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822327103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 6.50w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2001 pg. 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 1057","brand":"E. Taylor Atkins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086968631551,"sku":"9780822327103","price":114.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5bd192f-620d-465b-b6dc-340ea07c0754.jpg?v=1769097542","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blue-nippon-e-taylor-atkins-9780822327103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}