{"product_id":"teaching-personality-with-gracefulness-the-transmission-of-japanese-cultural-values-through-japanese-dance-theatre-9780819190154","title":"Teaching Personality With Gracefulness The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book includes both a description and a discussion of the methods used by Kanriye Fujima, a member of the Fujima school of Japan, to teach Nihon Buyon to primarily Japanese-Americans.  Sellers-Young discusses Fujima''s life as a teacher in three Pacific Northwest communities, providing an explanation of her teaching processes and contexts of performances. Incorporating the themes and images associated with the pieces, Sellers-Young discusses Fujima''s vital role in the maintenance of specific Japanese cultural values. Contents:  Preface; Becoming a Student; Kanriye Fujima''s Life and Traditional Japanese Dance Theatre; The Movement and Its Aesthetic Base; The Students; The Studio:  The Process of Teaching; The Performance Elements; Contexts of Performance; Nihon Buyo:  From Japan to the Pacific Northwest; Appendices:  The Dances and Program Notes of Fujinami-Kai; The Ten Most Taught Dances in Each Age Category; References; List of Illustrations; Tables and Charts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one else has provided us with a book in English that begins to answer the questions Barbara Sellers-Young addresses about Japanese dance....This book gives us much to be thankful for. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno * Dance Research Journal *\u003cbr\u003eSellers-Young is at once scholarly and readable. [Her book] is both an ethnographic study and a journal of personal growth. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno\u003cbr\u003eSellers-Young is at once scholarly and readable. [Her book] is both an ethnographic study and a journal of personal growth. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno\u003cbr\u003eNo one else has provided us with a book in English that begins to answer the questions Barbara Sellers-Young addresses about Japanese dance....This book gives us much to be thankful for. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno * Dance Research Journal *","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038607868247,"sku":"9780819190154","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780819190154.jpg?v=1750940821","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teaching-personality-with-gracefulness-the-transmission-of-japanese-cultural-values-through-japanese-dance-theatre-9780819190154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}