This Is Our Music: Authenticating Japanese Jazz, 1920-1980

"The third theme problematizes the concept of marginality by demonstrating how the jazz subculture shares the concerns, values, and tensions that characterize the mainstream. The search for cultural authenticity and a national voice in the arts has been a major endeavor of twentieth-century Japanese, not limited to the jazz culture. In the adoption and adaptation of a ""foreign"" art, in the cultural tensions provoked by that art, in the anxieties over ""authenticity"" and cultural identity, and in the authenticating strategies developed to assuage those tensions and anxieties, we can see not only the history of jazz but the history of modern Japan."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Atkins, Everett Taylor

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume

• Anthropology, Cultural

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9717250

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84718