Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan

by E. Taylor Atkins

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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"

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