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Louder and Faster Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko

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Louder and Faster is a study of taiko in California, focused on the play of sound, performance, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, and politics. Wong explores taiko as a music/dance art form that creates spaces in which memories of the WW2 Japanese American incarceration, Asian American identity, an...

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Main Author: Wong, Deborah (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oakland University of California Press 2019
Subjects:
Music
Society & social sciences
Japanese American
Asian American
taiko
music
dance
California
Los Angeles
Buddhism
social movements
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Summary:Louder and Faster is a study of taiko in California, focused on the play of sound, performance, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, and politics. Wong explores taiko as a music/dance art form that creates spaces in which memories of the WW2 Japanese American incarceration, Asian American identity, and a desire to be seen/heard intersect with global capitalism, the complications of mediation, and legacies of imperialism. Based on two decades of participatory ethnographic work, the book offers a vivid glimpse of an Asian American presence both loud and fragile.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (293 p.)
ISBN:luminos.71
9780520304529
Access:Open Access

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