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The Japan of pure invention : Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado / Josephine Lee.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.S95 L44 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Josephine, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Mikado.
- Sullivan, Arthur.
- Japan--In opera.
- Japan.
- Orientalism.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Part I. 1885. My objects all sublime : racial performance and commodity culture ; "My artless Japanese way" : Japanese villages and absent coolies ; Magical objects and therapeutic yellowface
- Part II. 1938-39. "And others of his race" : blackface and yellowface ; Titipu comes to America : hot and cool Mikados
- Part III. Contemporary Mikados. "The threatened cloud": production and protest ; Asian American Mikados ; The Mikado in Japan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816665792
- 0816665796
- 9780816665808
- 081666580X
- OCLC:
- 496235700
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