Format:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520973152
Series Statement:
American Crossroads Series v.55
Content:
2020 Alan Merriam Prize for Best Book Published in Ethnomusicology, Society for Ethnomusicology A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Louder and Faster is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian American taiko, the thundering, athletic drumming tradition that originated in Japan. Immersed in the taiko scene for twenty years, Deborah Wong has witnessed cultural and demographic changes and the exponential growth and expansion of taiko particularly in Southern California. Through her participatory ethnographic work, she reveals a complicated story embedded in memories of Japanese American internment and legacies of imperialism, Asian American identity and politics, a desire to be seen and heard, and the intersection of culture and global capitalism. Exploring the materialities of the drums, costumes, and bodies that make sound, analyzing the relationship of these to capitalist multiculturalism, and investigating the gender politics of taiko, Louder and Faster considers both the promises and pitfalls of music and performance as an antiracist practice. The result is a vivid glimpse of an Asian American presence that is both loud and fragile.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Examples -- Introduction -- Transition: Don -- 1. Looking, Listening, and Moving -- 2. Inventories: The Material Culture of Taiko -- Transition: She Dances on a Taiko -- 3. Dancing the Body Politic: Obon and Bon-odori -- Transition: Unison and Circles -- 4. Good Gigs, Bad Gigs: Drumming between Hope and Anger -- 5. Taiko, Erotics, and Anger -- Transition: From My Journal-Learning and Playing "Miyake,"May 8, 2006 -- 6. Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More -- 7. Cruising the Pac Rim: Driven to Thrill -- Transition: How to Leave a Taiko Group -- Conclusion: Core Values -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- References -- Series: American Crossroads -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520304529
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520304529
Language:
English
URL:
https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
