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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789988003321

Autore

Wong Yutian

Titolo

Choreographing Asian America [[electronic resource] /] / Yutian Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-10977-8

9786613109774

0-8195-7108-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Disciplina

792.80895073

Soggetti

Dance - Anthropological aspects - United States

Choreography - United States

Asian Americans - Ethnic identity

Asian Americans - Cultural assimilation

Asian Americans and mass media

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

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Situating Asian American Dance Studies; 2 Club O' Noodles's Laughter from the Children of War; 3 Rehearsing the Collective: A Performative Autoethnography; Interlude The Amazing Chinese American Acrobat: Choreography as Methodology; 4 Mapping Membership: Class, Ethnicity, and the Making of Stories from a Nail Salon; 5 Writing Nail Salon; 6 Pedagogy of the Scantily Clad: Studying Miss Saigon in the Twenty-first Century; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

A critical study of Asian American performance and creative process