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Drumming Asian America - Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics (Hardcover)
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Drumming Asian America - Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics (Hardcover)
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With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has
gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan.
Harnessed by Japanese Americans in the late 1960s, taiko's sonic
largesse and buoyant energy challenged stereotypical images of
Asians in America as either model minorities or sinister
foreigners. While the majority of North American taiko players are
Asian American, over 400 groups now exist across the US and Canada,
and players come from a range of backgrounds. Using ethnographic
and historical approaches, combined with in-depth performance
description and analysis, this book explores the connections
between taiko and Asian American cultural politics. Based on
original and archival interviews, as well as the author's extensive
experience as a taiko player, this book highlights the Midwest as a
site for Asian American cultural production and makes embodied
experience central to inquiries about identity, including race,
gender, and sexuality. The book builds on insights from the fields
of dance studies, ethnomusicology, performance studies, queer and
feminist theory, and Asian American studies to argue that taiko
players from a variety of identity positions perform Asian America
on stage, as well as in rehearsals, festivals, schools, and through
interactions with audiences. While many taiko players play simply
for the love of its dynamism and physicality, this book
demonstrates that politics are built into even the most mundane
aspects of rehearsing and performing.
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