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Title Performing Japan : contemporary expressions of cultural identity / edited by Henry Johnson and Jerry C. Jaffe
Published Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Contents Ink traces of the dancing calligraphers : Zen-ei sho in Japan today / Roy Starrs -- Taiko today : performing soundscapes, landscapes and identities / Millie Creighton -- Miki's 'Autumn fantasty' (1980) : international, Japanese or Asian? / Kimi Coaldrake -- Beyond the court : a challenge to the Gagaku tradition in the 'reconstruction project' of the National Theatre / Terauchi Naoko -- Spring day, stone age and the search for an essential Japan by Koike Hiroshi / Jerry C. Jaffe -- Shakespeare on show in Japan : an anthropological analysis of cultural display / Joy Hendry -- Twenty-first-century enjoyment plaza : private space and contemporary art in Mori's world / Peter Eckersall -- Performing identity in Yaeyama : the case of the sash / Amanda Mayer Stinchecum -- Recontextualizing Eisā : transformations in religious, competition, festival and tourism contexts / Henry Johnson -- Local performance of global sound : more than the musical in Japanese hardcore rock / Jennifer Milioto Matsue -- When is Japanese, Japanese : a tale of two musicians / Terence Lancashire -- Internalizing digital phenomena : the 'performing' body at the intersection of Japanese culture and technology / Yuji Sone -- Rising sun, setting trends : fashioning Britishness in, and for, Japan / Alison L. Goodrum
Summary Using an interdisciplinary, theoretical and ethnographical approach, the editors have brought together a collection of current research on contemporary Japanese performance practices. Topics covered include theatre, music, art, fashion and technology, media, architecture and tourism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Performing arts -- Japan
Popular culture -- Japan.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Civilization
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Performing arts
Popular culture
Kulturelle Identität
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069361
Japan -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069579
Japan -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069531
Subject Japan
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Henry Mabley.
Jaffe, Jerry C.
ISBN 9789004213197
9004213198
128208903X
9781282089037
9786612089039
6612089032