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UNINA9910976786303321 |
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Autore |
Wong Deborah |
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Titolo |
Louder and Faster / Deborah Wong |
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Oakland : , : University of California Press, , 2019 |
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9780520304529 |
0520304527 |
9780520973152 |
0520973151 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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American Crossroads ; ; 55 |
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Disciplina |
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Music |
Social Science |
Social sciences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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, 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 |
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