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X-WR-CALNAME:Toshiko Akiyoshi’s ‘Kogun’: Narrating a Lone Soldier’s
  Experience in Nō Jazz
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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DESCRIPTION:In March 1974\, Lt. Onoda Hiroo emerged from the jungle on the 
 Philippine island of Lubang\, where he had been hiding for almost three de
 cades after the end of the Pacific War. He immediately became a worldwide 
 media sensation as an exemplar of samurai-like devotion to duty. Moved by 
 his story and the tragedy of a life wasted for a fruitless war\, jazz comp
 oser Toshiko Akiyoshi dedicated a composition to him. Entitled “Kogun”
  (lone soldier)\, the piece drew on thematic and narrative elements of med
 ieval nō theater\, situated within a jazz orchestral setting\, to highlig
 ht this tragedy\, thereby bringing to fruition her desire to create a seam
 less “blend” (yūgō) of Japanese music and the jazz idiom. This prese
 ntation also blends conventional cultural historical and musical analysis 
 to argue for the landmark status of “Kogun” within jazz history.\n\nE.
  Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern 
 Illinois University. His major publications include Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew T
 abackin Big Band’s Kogun (2024)\; A History of Popular Culture in Japan\
 , From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (second edition\, 2022)\; Pr
 imitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze\, 1910-1945 (2010)\;
  Jazz Planet (editor\, 2003)\; and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Jap
 an (2001)\, winner of the Association for Asian Studies’ John Whitney Ha
 ll Prize. He also plays bass for the Jazz in Progress Big Band and the Wil
 d Blue Ukulele Orchestra and produces and hosts House of Funk on Hot Rocks
  Radio.
GEO:40.441386;-79.954582
LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 4130
SUMMARY:Toshiko Akiyoshi’s ‘Kogun’: Narrating a Lone Soldier’s Expe
 rience in Nō Jazz
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/toshiko-akiyoshis-kogun-narra
 ting-a-lone-soldiers-experience-in-no-jazz
CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Symposia\, Etc.
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