專題演講

【講者】












Prof. E. Taylor Atkins 
Professor,
Department of History, Northern Illinois University
http://www.niu.edu/etatkins/

【講題】

"Let's Call This: A Paradoxical Platform for Transnational Jazz Studies." 

【摘要】

The gradual, ongoing internationalization of jazz studies is a long overdue and welcome departure from historical, musicological, and ethnographic biases that have presumed that the only jams of consequence happen in the United States. In my address, I hope to inspire reflection on the methods and mindsets with which we examine jazz outside of the nation of its birth, with a paradoxical episteme, a “bothand” rather than an “either-or” formulation. Scholars must always be attuned to place, time, and cultural context, but this, too, can lead to (what I consider to be) a retrogressive, counterproductive reification of what the jazz critic Yui Shōichi called jazz nationalisms, accentuating (and exaggerating) the degree to which “culture” determines the sounds produced by jazz musicians around the world. I would like to suggest that jazz scholarship be mindful of the simultaneous relevance and irrelevance of time, place, and culture when examining the music in diverse contexts.

【講者簡介】

◎Fields of Study
Asia (Japan & Korea), Colonial Empires, Cultural/Intellectual, Global, Memory and Commemoration

◎Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997

◎Current Research:
A global study of responses by adherents of the Baha'i' Faith to colonialism and decolonization

◎Major/Recent Publications:

Books:
  
1)
Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-45. Colonialisms 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.(詳情
2)
(Editor) Jazz Planet. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2003.(詳情
3)
Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Durham: Duke UP 2001.(詳情

Articles/Book Chapters:

1)
"The Dual Career of 'Arirang': The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became a Japanese Pop Hit." Journal of Asian Studies 66.3 (August 2007): 645-687.(詳情
2)
"Popular Culture." In William Tsutsui, ed., A Companion to Japanese History. Blackwell Companions to World History. Malden, MA, & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 460-76.(詳情
3)
"Sacred Swing: The Sacralization of Jazz in the American Bahá‡'í’ Community." American Music 24.4 (Winter 2006): 383-420.(詳情
4)
"Edifying Tones: Using Music to Teach Asian History and Culture." Education About Asia 8.1 (Spring 2003): 17-20.(詳情
5)
"Korean P’ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing" (co-authored with Katharine C. Purcell). East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies 2 (2002): 63-84.