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 JapanOCOs cities and countryside. Building on the insights of
globalization studies, the book argues that taiko developed within
and has come to express new forms of communal association in a
Japan increasingly engaged with global cultural flows. While its
popularity has created new opportunities for Japanese to
participate in community life, this study also reveals how the
discourses and practices of taiko drummers dramatize tensions
inherent in Japanese conceptions of race, the body, gender,
authenticity, and locality.
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