Background
Taylor Atkins was born on May 4, 1967, in Murray, Kentucky, United States. He is a son of Bill and Barbara (Bruce) Atkins.
Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Taylor Atkins studied at the University of Arkansas, where he got a Bachelor of Arts in 1989.
Champaign, IL, USA
Taylor Atkins graduated from the University of Illinois with a Master of Arts in History, and with a Ph.D. in 1997.
(In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Jap...)
In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japan’s own attitude toward jazz is founded on this same ambivalence about its authenticity. Engagingly told through the voices of many musicians, Blue Nippon explores the true and legitimate nature of Japanese jazz. Atkins peers into 1920s dancehalls to examine the Japanese Jazz Age and reveal the origins of urban modernism with its new set of social mores, gender relations, and consumer practices. He shows how the interwar jazz period then became a troubling symbol of Japan’s intimacy with the West - but how, even during the Pacific war, the roots of jazz had taken hold too deeply for the “total jazz ban” that some nationalists desired. While the allied occupation was a setback in the search for an indigenous jazz sound, Japanese musicians again sought American validation. Atkins closes out his cultural history with an examination of the contemporary jazz scene that rose up out of Japan’s spectacular economic prominence in the 1960s and 1970s but then leveled off by the 1990s, as tensions over authenticity and identity persisted. With its depiction of jazz as a transforming global phenomenon, Blue Nippon will make enjoyable reading not only for jazz fans worldwide but also for ethnomusicologists, and students of cultural studies, Asian studies, and modernism.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EDIWUF8/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Jazz Planet provokes readers to question the nationalisti...)
Jazz Planet provokes readers to question the nationalistic bias of most jazz scholarship, and to expand the pantheon of great jazz artists to include innovative musicians who blazed independent paths.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M0O3TG/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(A History of Popular Culture in Japan synthesizes the lat...)
A History of Popular Culture in Japan synthesizes the latest scholarship from a variety of disciplines. It is a vital resource for students of Japanese cultural history wishing to gain a deeper understanding of Japan's contributions to global cultural heritage.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075PQGVHQ/?tag=2022091-20
2017
Taylor Atkins was born on May 4, 1967, in Murray, Kentucky, United States. He is a son of Bill and Barbara (Bruce) Atkins.
Taylor Atkins studied at the University of Arkansas, where he got a Bachelor of Arts in 1989. Later he graduated from the University of Illinois with a Master of Arts in History, and with a Ph.D. in 1997.
Taylor began his career in 1997 at the University of Iowa, Iowa City as a visiting assistant professor. Later he transferred to the Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, serving there as an assistant professor from 1997 to 2003. After that, he occupied the post of an associate professor of history at the University of California beginning from 2003. And also he was a visiting assistant professor at Berkeley in 2003.
(Jazz Planet provokes readers to question the nationalisti...)
2003(A History of Popular Culture in Japan synthesizes the lat...)
2017(In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Jap...)
2001Taylor Atkins is a member of the American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, and Association for Baha'i Studies.
Atkins was married on August 31, 1991, to Zabrina. They have two daughters, Gabriella and Annabelle.