E. Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of A History of Popular Culture in Japan (Bloomsbury 2017; 2nd. ed., 2022), Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (2010), and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), and editor of Jazz Planet (2003).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Lone Soldier2. The Long Yellow Road3. The Band4. The Record5. The Title Track6. The ReckoningEpilogue: The Legacy ReferencesAbbreviationsInterviews/Email CorrespondenceSelect DiscographyNotesIndex

E. Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of A History of Popular Culture in Japan (Bloomsbury 2017; 2nd. ed., 2022), Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (2010), and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), and editor of Jazz Planet (2003).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Lone Soldier2. The Long Yellow Road3. The Band4. The Record5. The Title Track6. The ReckoningEpilogue: The Legacy ReferencesAbbreviationsInterviews/Email CorrespondenceSelect DiscographyNotesIndex

E. Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of A History of Popular Culture in Japan (Bloomsbury 2017; 2nd. ed., 2022), Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (2010), and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), and editor of Jazz Planet (2003).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Lone Soldier2. The Long Yellow Road3. The Band4. The Record5. The Title Track6. The ReckoningEpilogue: The Legacy ReferencesAbbreviationsInterviews/Email CorrespondenceSelect DiscographyNotesIndex