Choreographing Asian America / Yutian Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Yutian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Anthropological aspects--United States.

Dance.

Choreography--United States.

Choreography.

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Asian Americans and mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A critical study of Asian American performance and creative process

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-10977-8

9786613109774

0-8195-7108-3

OCLC:

767498431