Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions

ISBN-13: 9780700715862 / Twarda / 2004 / 256 str.

Um, Hae-Kyung

Opis

A wide range of performing arts and practices of the Asian diasporas across the world are examined by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, anthropology, cultural studies, dance ethnology and ethnomusicology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Part 1: Asian Diasporas and Performing Arts  1. Power, Identity, Modernity and the Performing Arts among Diasporas: Background Ideas from the Chinese Case  2. Morphing Chineseness: The Changing Image of Chinese Music Clubs in Singapore  3. Community, Identity and Performing Arts: The Korean Diaspora in China and the former Soviet Union  4. Dancing in the Tomb of Samba: Japanese-Brazilian Presence/Absence in São Paulo Carnival  5. Noisy Intersection: Ethnicity, Authenticity and Ownership in Asian American Taiko  6. Arangetrams and Manufacturing Identity: The Changing Role of a Bharata Natyam Dancer's Solo Debut in the Context of the Diaspora  7. South Asian Music in Britain  8. Idealization and Changes in the Music of the Cambodian Diaspora  9. Nagi Music and Community: Belonging and Displacement in Larantuka, Eastern Indonesia  Part 2: Intercultural Performances and Transnational Audiences  10. Jingju (Beijing/Peking Opera) as International Art and as Transnational Root of Cultural Identification: Process of Creation and Reception in Shanghai, Nanjing and Honolulu  11. 'Mirrors' of West and 'Mirrors' of East: Elements of Gagaku in Post-War Art Music  12. Theatrical Collaboration in the Age of Globalization: The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID Intercultural Collaboration Project  Afterword  Index

O autorze

Hae-kyung Um is Lecturer in the School of Anthropological Studies at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.