LEADER 03808oam 2200661 450 001 9910821386003321 005 20161228111628.0 010 $a0-472-02928-2 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.2645266 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060270 035 $a(EBL)3415137 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871094 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11462291 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871094 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10819944 035 $a(PQKB)10926949 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3415137 035 $a(OCoLC)842262259 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24841 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.2645266 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3415137 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10692968 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL484801 035 $a(OCoLC)923505981 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060270 100 $a20130225d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerica's Japan and Japan's performing arts $ecultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 /$fBarbara E. Thornbury 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cThe University of Michigan Press,$d[2013] 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-472-11885-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-249). 327 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Japanese Names and Terms""; ""Introduction""; ""1. America's Kabuki-Japan""; ""2. "America's Japan" the Performing Arts, and Japan Society, New York""; ""3. De-familiarizing Japan at La MaMa E.T.C.""; ""4. Claiming the New, Reclaiming the Old in "Music From Japan""; ""5. Lincoln Center Festival's Japan""; ""6. Negotiating the Foreign: Language, American Audiences, and Theater from Japan ""; ""7. Closure and Counterpoint: The Japan NYC Festival, the Earthquake and Tsunami Benefit Concerts, and Circuits of Mobility and Exchange, 2010-2011 "" 327 $a""Notes"" ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $a" America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan. Barbara E. Thornbury explores how "Japan" and "Japanese culture" have been constructed, reconstructed, and transformed in response to the hundreds of productions that have taken place over the past sixty years in New York, the main entry point and defining cultural nexus in the United States for the global touring market in the performing arts. Thornbury crosses disciplinary boundaries in her wide range of both primary sources and published scholarship, making the book of interest to students and scholars of performing arts studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aPerforming arts$zJapan$xInfluence 606 $aIntercultural communication in the performing arts 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aPerforming arts$xInfluence. 615 0$aIntercultural communication in the performing arts. 676 $a792.0973//0904 686 $aPER011020$aHIS021000$aHIS036060$2bisacsh 700 $aThornbury$b Barbara E$0651337 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821386003321 996 $aAmerica's Japan and Japan's performing arts$94030732 997 $aUNINA