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Enemy Soldiers And "Ball Mates": Intra-Imperial Football And Identity Politics In Interwar Northeast Asia, E. Taylor Atkins
Enemy Soldiers And "Ball Mates": Intra-Imperial Football And Identity Politics In Interwar Northeast Asia, E. Taylor Atkins
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Nowhere in the colonial world was intra-imperial competition in association football (soccer) more common than that between imperial Japan and colonial Korea. Korean sides won an impressive 73% of their matches against Japanese between 1926 and 1942. If the Tokyo-based Japan Football Association (of which the Korea Football Association was a regional affiliate) was the organizational center of the sport within the empire, in terms of quality play the peninsula displaced it. This article argues that although football competition certainly reflected nationalist animosities, it also exemplified what imperial integration (naisen ittai) was supposed to look like. Football was one area …
Frenemy Music? Jazz And The Aural Imaginary In Wartime Japan, E. Taylor Atkins
Frenemy Music? Jazz And The Aural Imaginary In Wartime Japan, E. Taylor Atkins
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In my 2001 book Blue Nippon: "Authenticating Jazz in Japan", I argued that despite an attempted «total jazz ban», the music survived as «salon/light music» or «hidden jazz», and that musicians from the interwar jazz age found ways to contribute to the «new cultural order» of wartime. Taking advantage of more accessible aural and discographical data than was available in the 1990s, here I expand on these findings, arguing that the principal contribution jazz musicians made to the war effort was to construct an aural imaginary of Japan's Asia-Pacific empire. As the imperial boundaries and front lines moved outward from …
Jammin’ On The Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community In Interwar Shanghai, E. Taylor Atkins
Jammin’ On The Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community In Interwar Shanghai, E. Taylor Atkins
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Examines the community of expatriate Japanese musicians playing jazz in interwar Shanghai, and the symbolic meaning of Shanghai as a "frontier" where musicians could develop their chops.
The War On Jazz, Or Jazz Goes To War: Toward A New Cultural Order In Wartime Japan, E. Taylor Atkins
The War On Jazz, Or Jazz Goes To War: Toward A New Cultural Order In Wartime Japan, E. Taylor Atkins
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Discusses the fate of jazz in wartime Japan, emphasizing not just the official ban on the music, but the ways that jazz musicians found ways to make the idiom serve national policy.