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Book SynopsisContributors to this volume address such topics as the role of the 1960s Asian American movement in creating Japanese American taiko groups, and the experience of internment during World War II influencing butoh dance in Canada. The volume includes first-person narratives, interviews, ethnography, cultural studies, and performance studies.
Trade ReviewA methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production.""- Priya Srinivasan, author of
Sweating Saris""Confirms the vibrant and diverse presence of contemporary Asian American dance on the stage and in the world. This fresh new scholarship inspires us all to consider the strategies and achievements of generations of artists and researchers working at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies. An absolute must for anyone concerned with the future of dance scholarship.""- Thomas F. DeFrantz, editor of
Dancing Many Drums""A methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production."" - Priya Srinivasan, author of
Sweating Saris""Confirms the vibrant and diverse presence of contemporary Asian American dance on the stage and in the world. This fresh new scholarship inspires us all to consider the strategies and achievements of generations of artists and researchers working at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies. An absolute must for anyone concerned with the future of dance scholarship."" - Thomas F. DeFrantz, editor of
Dancing Many DrumsTable of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Yutian Wong
- Part I: Dancing Citizenship
- 1. A New Taiko Folk Dance: San Jose Taiko and Asian American Movements
- Angela K. Ahlgren
- 2. We Should Bring Our Muzukashii
- Roko Kawai
- 3. Asian Canadian Dance: Cross-Cultural Currents in Vancouver's Kokoro Dance and Co.ERASGA Dance
- Eury Colin Chang
- 4. ""Started in the Streets . . ."": Reality TV, Neoliberalism and the Performance of Asian American Entrepreneurship on America's Best Dance Crew, Season 1
- Brian Su-Jen Chung
- Part II: Choreographing Aesthetics
- 5. Mediated Meditations: Choreographies of Shen Wei and Kun-Yang Lin
- Ellen V. P. Gerdes
- 6. An Asian American Land: Eiko & Koma Choreograph Cultural Politics
- Rosemary Candelario
- 7. Ambivalent Selves: The Asian Female Body in Contemporary American Dance
- Maura Nguyen Donohue
- Afterword
- Yutian Wong and Denise Uyehara
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
