Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-299-30874-2
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Studies in Dance History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wong, Yutian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Choreographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Yutian Wong is an associate professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Choreographing Asian America.