Michael Pronko

A Guide to Jazz in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Whether you're visiting Japan, living there, armchair traveling, or just love jazz, this guide points you toward the best of Japan's vibrant jazz scene. With reviews of over 40+ clubs and 200+ musicians, this indispensable guide lets you know where to go, who to hear, and where to shop, jam, and hang out.

With bonus essays on Japan's unique jazz history, culture, and community, A Guide to Jazz in Japan helps you explore and understand one of the largest and most vibrant jazz scenes in the world. From hip backstreet clubs to talented musicians, the practical information and informed suggestions help make your trip-or your life-in Japan more interesting, fun, informed-and jazzier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Pronko
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942410362
• Artikelnr.: 73607322

Autorenporträt

Michael Pronko is an award-winning, Tokyo-based writer of murder, memoir and music. His writings on Tokyo life and his taut character-driven mysteries have won critics' awards and five-star reviews. Kirkus Reviews called his second novel, The Moving Blade, "An elegant balance of Japanese customs with American-style hard-boiled procedural" and selected it for their Best Books of 2018.

Michael also runs the website, Jazz in Japan, about the vibrant jazz scene in Tokyo and Yokohama. He has written regular columns about Japanese culture, art, jazz, society and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, Artscape Japan, Jazznin, and ST Shukan. He has also appeared on NHK and Nippon Television.

A philosophy major, Michael traveled for years, ducking in and out of graduate schools, before finishing his PhD on Charles Dickens and film, and settling in Tokyo as a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University. He teaches contemporary American novels, film adaptations, music and art.