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Taiko Boom : Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion /

With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan,...

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Auteur principal: Bender, Shawn Morgan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, Taiko Boom explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades of rapid economic growth in Japan's cities and countryside. Building on the insights of globalization studies, the book argues that taiko developed within and has come to express ne.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520951433