Message from Clay Dube

[clay dube]

Our National Consortium for Teaching about Asia colleagues have produced a podcast series introducing Japanese and other Asian customs and trends. Many are outstanding. This might be a good site for someone to review. William Tsutsui did most of the Japanese ones. There are more than 300 of these one minute pieces. Perhaps they could launch discussions?

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/12861

And - a piece from NPR on how Japan came to love jazz: http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2014/04/30/308275726/how-japan-came-to-love-jazz

There is a virtually impossible to find documentary that we featured years ago at our summer institute: Tokyo Blues. Craig McTurk made the film. It was narrated by KJazz super DJ the late Chuck Niles. There is one part focusing on a superstar kid harmonica player. He'll have you dancing. http://www.worldcat.org/title/tokyo-blues-jazz-blues-in-japan/oclc/797005891

http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.jots.200023786/default.html

Craig now teaches in Singapore: http://www.np.edu.sg/fms/aboutus/staff/Pages/mcb.aspx