Research and Publications

Books

• Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. 33 1/3 Japan Series. Under contract with Bloomsbury Press.
• A History of Popular Culture in Japan, from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017; second edition, 2022
  • A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2018.
• Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-45. Colonialisms 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
• (Editor) Jazz Planet. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.
• Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Durham: Duke UP, 2001.
  • Winner of the Association for Asian Studies' 2003 John Whitney Hall Book Prize for best book on Japan or Korea.
  • Finalist, 2002 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music category).
  • Nota Bene selection, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2001.

Articles and Book Chapters

Accessible at Huskie Commons, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu.

Additional Projects

• Korea-Japan football (soccer) match results, 1926-42 (supplement for “‘Enemy Soldiers’ and ‘Ball Mates’: Intra-Imperial Football and Identity Politics in Interwar Northeast Asia.”)
• Transcript of NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi's interview for Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program.