Browsing Department of History Faculty Publications by Title
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Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, and Violence in the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1450-1700
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Bori practice among enslaved West Africans of Ottoman Tunis: Unbelief (Kufr) or another dimension of the African diaspora?
(Elsevier, 2011-06-15)Building on Ahmad ibn Yusuf b. al-Qadi al-Timbuktawi's treatise entitled Hatk al-Sitr Amma Alayhi Sudani Tunis min al-Kufr (Piercing the Veil: Being an Account of the Infidel Religions of the Blacks of Tunis) this paper ... -
The Dual Career of “Arirang”: The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became a Japanese Pop Hit
(Association for Asian Studies: Cambridge University Press, 2007-08)“Arirang” is known worldwide as the quintessential Korean folk song. Its iconic status in contemporary Korea derives from its perceived role in strengthening Korean resolve to resist the cultural violence of the Japanese ... -
Edifying Tones: Using Music to Teach Asian History and Culture
(Education About Asia, 2003)Discusses the ways that music and musical aesthetics can be used to illustrate cultural characteristics and philosophies in Asian history curriculum. -
“Enemy Soldiers” and “Ball Mates”: Intra-Imperial Football and Identity Politics in Interwar Northeast Asia
(Studies on Asia, 2021-06-01)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 ... -
Frenemy Music? Jazz and the Aural Imaginary in Wartime Japan
(Memoria e Ricerca: Rivista di storia contemporanea, 2018-05)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 ... -
Fugitive women: Slavery and social change in early modern Southeast Asia
(History Department, National University of Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2007-06)Female slaves in VOC-controlled Southeast Asia did not fare well under a legal code which erected a firm partition between free and slave status. This codification imposed a rigid dichotomy for what had been fluid, abstract ... -
Going Off to the War in Hungary: French Nobles and Crusading Culture in the Sixteenth Century
(Hungarian Historical Review, 2015)Crusading culture played a significant role in the conceptions and practices of religious warfare in the Early Modern Period, as French authors and militant nobles redeployed Hungary as a crucial theater of crusading war. ... -
Imagining Mexico in 1910: Visions of the Patria in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico City
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-08)Mexico’s 1910 Centenario reflected a popular trend in Western Europe and its former colonies to use centenaries of important historical events to promote political programmes and philosophies through the construction of ... -
Inventing Jazztowns and Internationalizing Local Identities in Japan
(Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kōbe University, 2004)Describes the respective claims of port cities Yokohama and Kobe to be the points of entry for jazz in Japan. -
Jammin’ on the Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community in Interwar Shanghai
(Japanese Studies, 1999-05)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. -
Jazz by the Sea: KRML and the Radio Presence of ‘America’s Classical Music’
(Jazz Perspectives, 2013)The last for-profit radio station with an all-jazz format was located not in a major city or center of jazz activity, but in Carmel, California. KRML-AM 1410 broadcasted jazz almost exclusively for three decades, before ... -
Korean P’ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing
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Sacred Swing: The Sacralization of Jazz in the American Bahá'í Community
(American Music, 2006)Much modern jazz performance is imbued with religious significance or “sacred intentionality”, as revealed in the Bahá’í conceptions of jazz as a vehicle for worship and spiritual transcendence. Although earlier generations ... -
Through Naval Practice and the Association with Foreigners’: French Nobles’ Participation in Mediterranean Religious Struggles
(Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, 2006-03)This article examines a group of ‘military migrants’, French nobles who engaged in Mediterranean maritime warfare, in an attempt to reconsider religious violence in the early modern period. The great religious wars of the ... -
The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan
(positions: east asia cultures critique, 1998)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.
