TY - BOOK AU - Wong,Deborah TI - Louder and Faster PY - 2019/// CY - Oakland PB - University of California Press KW - Asian American KW - Dance KW - Japanese American KW - Music KW - Taiko N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24703/1/louder-and-faster.pdf10.1525/luminos.71http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24703 ER -