{"id":5266,"date":"2005-08-03T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=112"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:13:35","slug":"jazz-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/08\/jazz-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/4791762010\/qid=1123078028\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images-jp.amazon.com\/images\/P\/4791762010.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10px\" vspace=\"10px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.all.umn.edu\/faculty\/molasky.htm\">Michael Molasky<\/a>, who teaches at University of Minnesota and has published on Okinawa literature (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0824823001\/\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0415260442\/\">this<\/a>), has recently released a book in Japanese on the history of jazz in postwar Japan.  (I could not find an English version at Amazon so perhaps it is not appearing in English.)  <\/p>\n<p>The book title is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/4791762010\">\u6226\u5f8c\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u30b8\u30e3\u30ba\u6587\u5316\u2015\u6620\u753b\u30fb\u6587\u5b66\u30fb\u30a2\u30f3\u30b0\u30e9<\/a>, which translates as <em>Jazz Culture in Postwar Japan: Film, Literature, and the Underground<\/em>.  The last phrase, <em>angura<\/em>, refers to the underground art scene that flourished in the 1960s.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the bio on Amazon taken from the book, the author is also a jazz pianist and plays regularly in Tokyo. <\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/yakumoizuru\/20050725\/p2\">\u4f5c\u54c1\u30e1\u30e2\u30e9\u30f3\u30c0\u30e0<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Molasky, who teaches at University of Minnesota and has published on Okinawa literature (this and this), has recently released a book in Japanese on the history of jazz in postwar Japan. (I could not find an English version at Amazon so perhaps it is not appearing in English.) The book title is \u6226\u5f8c\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u30b8\u30e3\u30ba\u6587\u5316\u2015\u6620\u753b\u30fb\u6587\u5b66\u30fb\u30a2\u30f3\u30b0\u30e9, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[167,170,173,119,63,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books-and-articles","category-cultural","category-english","category-japan","category-206"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1mW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}