Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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The definition of Asian American dance is as contested as the definition of ""Asian American."" The contributors 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. Essays about artists such as Jay Hirabayashi, Alvin Tolentino, Shen Wei, Kun-Yang Lin, Yasuko Yokoshi, Eiko & Koma, Sam Kim, Roko Kawai, and Denise Uyehara look closely at the politics of how Asian aesthetics are set into motion and marketed. The volume includes first-person narratives, interviews, ethnography, cultural studies, performance studies, and comparative ethnic studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-30
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt388 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Dance History
Antal sidor272
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299308742

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Preface and Acknowledgments IntroductionYutian WongPart I: Dancing Citizenship1. A New Taiko Folk Dance: San Jose Taiko and Asian American MovementsAngela K. Ahlgren2. We Should Bring Our MuzukashiiRoko Kawai3. Asian Canadian Dance: Cross-Cultural Currents in Vancouver's Kokoro Dance and Co.ERASGA DanceEury Colin Chang4. ""Started in the Streets . . ."": Reality TV, Neoliberalism and the Performance of Asian American Entrepreneurship on America's Best Dance Crew, Season 1Brian Su-Jen ChungPart II: Choreographing Aesthetics5. Mediated Meditations: Choreographies of Shen Wei and Kun-Yang LinEllen V. P. Gerdes6. An Asian American Land: Eiko & Koma Choreograph Cultural Politics Rosemary Candelario7. Ambivalent Selves: The Asian Female Body in Contemporary American Dance Maura Nguyen DonohueAfterword Yutian Wong and Denise UyeharaBibliography ContributorsIndex

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 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 Drums