Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by Atkins, E. Taylor

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses...
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Author: E. Taylor Atkins
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Language: English
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Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by Atkins, E. Taylor

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

€50,58

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

€50,58
Author: E. Taylor Atkins
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.

In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the Philippine jungle where he had hidden for three decades, unconvinced that World War II had ended. Later that year, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band released its first album, Kogun ("solitary soldier"), the title track of which adopted music from medieval Japanese no theater for the first time in a jazz context as aural commemoration of his experience. At a time when big band jazz was mostly a vehicle for nostalgia and no longer regarded as a vital art, the album was heralded as a revelation. Kogun elevated Akiyoshi's reputation as a brilliant composer/arranger and earned Tabackin acclaim as a compelling, versatile improviser on tenor saxophone and flute.

Author: E. Taylor Atkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/14/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.86h x 5.12w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9798765109014

About the Author
E. Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of A History of Popular Culture in Japan (Bloomsbury 2017; 2nd. ed., 2022), Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (2010), and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), and editor of Jazz Planet (2003).

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