Drumming Asian America : taiko, performance, and cultural politics /
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 mino...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Drumming Asian America, performing cultural politics
- A new taiko tolk dance : San Jose taiko and Asian American movements
- Taiko scenarios : performing Asian America in the Land of 10,000 Lakes
- Practicing ambivalence : white and black women in Asian American performance
- Butch bodies, big drums : queering North American taiko
- Conclusion : This occasion needs context.
- Appendix A. List of interviews by the author
- Appendix B. List of life history interview transcripts consulted.