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Jazz by the Sea: KRML and the Radio Presence of ‘America’s Classical Music’

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (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 ...

Sacred Swing: The Sacralization of Jazz in the American Bahá'í Community

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (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 ...

Imagining Mexico in 1910: Visions of the Patria in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico City

Gonzales, Michael J. (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 ...

The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (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.

Korean P’ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies, 2002)

Jammin’ on the Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community in Interwar Shanghai

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (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.

Popular Culture

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (Blackwell Publishing, 2007)

Overview of popular culture in Japanese history.

Edifying Tones: Using Music to Teach Asian History and Culture

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (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.

Inventing Jazztowns and Internationalizing Local Identities in Japan

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (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.

The Dual Career of “Arirang”: The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became a Japanese Pop Hit

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (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 ...