Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wong, Deborah Anne

Titel

Louder and faster : pain, joy, and the body politic in Asian American taiko

Ort / Verlag

Oakland, California : University of California Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• 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
• Description of rights in Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (CC by-nc-nd)