Jazz A La Japanese article proposal

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363-05930.pdf

Digital Object Identifier

363-05930

Title

Jazz A La Japanese article proposal

Description

Article proposal about the Japanese jazz craze. Keever wrote one page, and then writes what the rest of the article will be. This proposal was sent to several publishers throughout 1961.

Transcript

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JAZZ Ã€ LA JAPANESE
Italians drop into their sidewalk expresso shops to listen to
Bache or to talk to the pidgeons. Parisienne intellectual flop
into their Left Bank cafes to discuss the important issues of the day.
New York and California beatniks plop into their coffee shops to discuss
what they think the Parisiennes are discussing.
But the Japanese, in their invincible way, have designed a
coffee shop for every person and any occasion.
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In-Tokyo, the "bossy-brassy-beat-synchronized to red flashing
lights in a dark, deafening setting dictates a non-talking, non-thinging
Pore
Cra
mood. "Crazy-gazy" was a Japanese
Students who
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description of this den of goz
hi-fi and super stereo. The quiet "study hall" type with dreamy
recorded music in a lavishly-decorated interior assists collegians to
Jup. ans.
cram for that vital exam. The "thinking-man's" type induces Ginse executives
to hold an important business conference over sips of green tea or the
strong brown brew.
But perhaps the most popular kind dots the small pockets of Tokyo
where many students congregate on their way home from class. The
Shinjuku Station area contains many famous coffee shops for the jazz-niks,"
The blues from Basin Street and St. Louis to Presley's G. I. laments--
rock the rafters 'n' roll in the yen.
The band-dressed Princetonian-style with orange and black
pinstrip jackets and white straw derbies--sways to the rhythms of
Dixieland, called "jazz-no sentimentality" as distinct from the
hot rock 'n' roll beat.
Unlike the small, dimly light coffee shops in beatnik Greenwich
Village, Japanese shops often take on the elegance and ingenuity of a
Paris night spot. The band stand of one famous coffeeshop near Ginas
rises and falls from the first to the third floor while the orchestra
plays music as soft as the lights.
The 400-word article, giving additional details of the jazz-craze
cal be illustrated with three or four black-and-white photos.
in Japan,
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Date

1961

Subject

Jazz; Coffeehouses; Music and youth; Tokyo (Japan)

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Coordinates

35.6585; 139.7334

Size

20 x 26 cm

Container

B174, F3

Format

dispatches

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

Creator

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Collector

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Copyright Information

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Publisher

Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Language

English

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