ISBN:
9780199374052
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
,
illustrations (black and white)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
786.908995073
Keywords:
Taiko (Drum ensemble)
;
Music Social aspects
;
Asian American musicians
;
USA
;
Taiko
;
Musik
;
Asien
;
Einfluss
;
Asiaten
;
Performance
;
Soziale Funktion
;
Identität
;
Kulturpolitik
Abstract:
With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan. Harnessed by Japanese Americans in the late 1960s, taiko's sonic largesse and buoyant energy challenged stereotypical images of Asians in America as either model minorities or sinister foreigners. While the majority of North American taiko players are Asian American, more than four hundred groups now exist across the United States and Canada, and these groups are comprised of people from a variety of racial and ethnic identities. Using ethnographic and historical approaches combined with performance description and analysis, this text explores the connections between taiko and Asian American cultural politics at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 18, 2018)
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780199374014.001.0001
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