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Michael Pronko

Member profile details

Membership level

Jazz Journalist (professional- voting member)

First name

Michael

Last name

Pronko

City

Koganei-shi

Country

JAPAN

I am a jazz

writer
photographer
web producer
other

"Other" means. . .

Professor of American culture

website/blog URL 1

www.jazzinjapan.com

I am the author/producer of

Jazz in Japan

Available at (URL or ISBN #1)

www.jazzinjapan.com

Other key Publications/Productions

"A Guide to Jazz in Japan" (Raked Gravel Press 2025), “Why Jazz Resonates So Far from Home,” Ed. Kei Hibino, Barnaby Ralph, and Henry Johnson. Music in the Making of Modern Japan: Essays on Reception, Transformation and Cultural Flows. Palgrave Macmillan 2021: 146-166. 3030738264
“Quiet About It—Jazz in Japan,” Ed. Nicholas Gebhardt, Nichole Rustin-Paschal, Tony Whyton. Routledge Companion to Jazz
Studies. Routledge Taylor and Francis, New York and London 2019: 271-280.

My interests in jazz are:

Japanese jazz, teaching jazz, writing about jazz, jazz reviewing

More about what I do:

I am a writer and professor of American literature in Tokyo, Japan. I teach courses in American music, art, film and literature. I write about jazz, art, politics, education and Tokyo life for various publications. My website covers the jazz scene in Tokyo, along with blues and alternative music. My site is one of the very few to cover Japanese jazz in English.