1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910341146703321

Autore

Wong Deborah

Titolo

Louder and Faster : Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko / / Deborah Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, : University of California Press, 2019

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-520-30452-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

American Crossroads ; ; 55

Disciplina

786.9089956073

Soggetti

Taiko (Drum ensemble) - United States - History

Asian American musicians

Japanese American musicians

Music

Society & social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contents -- List of Video and Audio 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 -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- References -- American Crossroads -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910639877203321

Titolo

The Authoring Problem : Challenges in Supporting Authoring for Interactive Digital Narratives / / edited by Charlie Hargood, David E. Millard, Alex Mitchell, Ulrike Spierling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783031052149

3031052145

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 pages)

Collana

Human–Computer Interaction Series, , 2524-4477

Disciplina

025.174

006.7

Soggetti

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Video games - Programming

Human-machine systems

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Game Development

Interaction Design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I. Authors and Processes -- Understanding the Process of Authoring -- Interactive Digital Narrative: The Genealogy of a Field -- Authorial Burden -- We Make How We Learn: The role of Community in Authoring Tool Longevity -- The Authoring Problem is a Publishing Problem -- Part II. Content -- Getting Creative with Actions -- Authoring Interactive Narrative Meets Narrative Interaction Design -- Writing for Replay: Supporting the Authoring of Kaleidoscopic Interactive Narratives -- Strange Patterns: Structure and Post-structure in Interactive Digital Narratives -- Mapping the Unmappable: Reimagining Visual Representations of Interactive Narrative -- On Story -- Part III. Form -- Authoring for Story Sifters -- Authoring Locative Narratives - Lessons Learned and Future Visions -- Shower Curtains of the Mind -- Game Mechanics as Narrative Mode -- Working with Intelligent Narrative Technologies -- Part IV. Research Issues -- Authoring Issues in Interdisciplinary Research Teams -- The Authoring Tool Evaluation Problem -- Quantitative Analysis of Emergent Narratives -- An Ethics Framework for Interactive Digital Narrative Authoring.

Sommario/riassunto

Authoring, its tools, processes, and design challenges are key issues for the Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) research community. The complexity of IDN authoring, often involving stories co-created by procedures and user interaction, creates confusion for tool developers and raises barriers for new authors. This book examines these issues from both the tool designer and the author’s perspective, discusses the poetics of IDN and how that can be used to design authoring tools, explores diverse forms of IDN and their demands, and investigates the challenges around conducting research on IDN authoring. To address these challenges, the chapter authors incorporate a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on ‘The Authoring Problem’ in IDN. While existing texts provide ‘how-to’ guidance for authors, this book is a primer for research and practice-based investigations into the authoring problem, collecting the latest thoughts about this area from key researchers and practitioners.