Blue Nippon : Authenticating Jazz in Japan

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prelude: Plenty Plenty Soul 1(18) The Japanese Jazz Artist and the Authenticity Complex 19(26) The Soundtrack of Modern Life: Japan's Jazz Revolution 45(48) Talkin' Jazz: Music, Modernism, and Interwar Japan's Culture Wars 93(34) ``Jazz for the Country's Sake'': Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan 127(38) Bop, Funk, Junk, and That Old Democracy Boogie: The Jazz Tribes of Postwar Japan 165(56) Our Thing: Defining ``Japanese Jazz'' 221(44) Postlude: J-Jazz and the Fin de Siecle Blues 265(12) Notes 277(52) References 329(22) Discography 351(6) Index 357