Louder and Faster Deborah Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Deborah, author.

Series:

American Crossroads ; 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland : University of California Press, 2019.

Summary:

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 fragile.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520304529

0520304527

9780520973152

0520973151

OCLC:

1081370659

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.71