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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790307303321

Autore

Bender Shawn

Titolo

Taiko Boom : Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion / / Shawn Bender

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-78137-8

9786613691767

0-520-95143-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes ; ; 23

Disciplina

785.680952

Soggetti

Taiko - History - Japan

Taiko (Drum ensemble) - History - Japan

Music - Japan

Musical instruments - Japan

Japan Social life and customs

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Japanese Names, and Romanization -- Introduction -- Part One. The Emergence and Popularization of Taiko -- Part Two. Discourses of Contemporary Taiko -- Epilogue: Taiko at Home and Abroad -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, Taiko Boom explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades of rapid economic growth in Japan's cities and countryside. Building on the insights of globalization studies, the book argues that taiko developed within and has come to express new forms of communal association in a Japan increasingly engaged with global cultural flows. While its popularity has created new opportunities for



Japanese to participate in community life, this study also reveals how the discourses and practices of taiko drummers dramatize tensions inherent in Japanese conceptions of race, the body, gender, authenticity, and locality.