Performing Japan : contemporary expressions of cultural identity
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Performing Japan : contemporary expressions of cultural identity
Global Oriental, 2008
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For the first time, using an interdisciplinary, theoretical and ethnographic approach, the editors have brought together a rich collection of current research on contemporary Japanese performance practices. Topics covered include theatre, music, art, fashion and technology, media, architecture and tourism. Well illustrated, Performing Japan will provide added-value in introductory courses on the Japanese language, history, or culture, as well as Asian Studies in general. In addition, it offers valuable comparative references in the context of theatre, music and dance classes which either introduce Japanese forms or focus entirely on the performing traditions of Japan. The fourteen contributors include Joy hendry, Roy Starrs, Peter Eckersall, Kimi Coaldrake, Henry Johnson and Jerry C. Jaffe.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- PART I: Tradition and Transformation
- 1 Ink Traces of the Dancing Calligraphers: Zen-Ei Sho in Japan Today
- 2 Taiko Today: Performing Soundscapes, Landscapes and Identities
- 3 Miki's 'Autumn Fantasy' (1980): International, Japanese or Asian?
- 4 Beyond the Court: A Challenge to the Gagaku Tradition in the 'Reconstruction Project' of the National Theatre
- 5 Spring Day, Stone Age and the Search for an Essential Japan by Koike Hiroshi
- PART II: Place and Identity
- 6 Shakespeare on Show in Japan: An Anthropological Analysis of Cultural Display
- 7 Twenty-First-Century Enjoyment Plaza: Private Space and Contemporary Arts in Mori's World
- 8 Performing Identity in Yaeyama: The Case of the Sash
- 9 Recontextualizing Eisa: Transformations in Religious, Competition, Festival and Tourism Contexts
- PART III: Popular Culture, Technology and Consumerism
- 10 Local Performance of Global Sound: More than the Musical in Japanese Hardcore Rock
- 11 When is Japanese, Japanese? A Tale of Two Musicians
- 12 Internalizing Digital Phenomena: The 'Performing' Body at the Intersection of Japanese Culture and Technology
- 13 Rising Sun, Setting Trends: Fashioning Britishness In, and For, Japan
- Index
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