Louder and Faster
Wong, Deborah,
Louder and Faster Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko - Oakland University of California Press 2019 - 1 online resource (293 pages)
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.
Asian American Dance Japanese American Music Taiko
Louder and Faster Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko - Oakland University of California Press 2019 - 1 online resource (293 pages)
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.
Asian American Dance Japanese American Music Taiko