TY - BOOK ID - 77889382 TI - Taiko boom PY - 2012 SN - 1280781378 9786613691767 0520951433 9780520951433 9780520272422 0520272420 9780520272415 0520272412 9781280781377 6613691763 PB - Berkeley DB - UniCat KW - Japan - Social life and customs. KW - Japan -- Social life and customs. KW - Music - Japan. KW - Music -- Japan. KW - Musical instruments - Japan. KW - Musical instruments -- Japan. KW - Taiko - Japan - History. KW - Taiko -- Japan -- History. KW - Taiko (Drum ensemble) - Japan - History. KW - Taiko (Drum ensemble) -- Japan -- History. KW - Taiko KW - Taiko (Drum ensemble) KW - Music KW - Musical instruments KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - Music History & Criticism, Instrumental KW - Musical instruments, Japanese KW - Music, Japanese KW - Percussion ensembles KW - Drum KW - History KW - Japan KW - Social life and customs. KW - 20th century japan. KW - asian american studies. KW - asian music. KW - asian studies. KW - cultural anthropology. KW - east asia. KW - east asian culture. KW - east asian studies. KW - ethnomusicology. KW - international music. KW - japanese anthropology. KW - japanese art. KW - japanese culture. KW - japanese economy. KW - japanese ethnography. KW - japanese history. KW - japanese instruments. KW - japanese music. KW - japanese taiko drumming. KW - japanese traditions. KW - music. KW - percussion instruments. KW - performing arts. KW - postwar entertainment. KW - postwar japan. KW - postwar period. KW - theatre. KW - western music. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77889382 AB - With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, Taiko Boom explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades of rapid economic growth in Japan's cities and countryside. Building on the insights of globalization studies, the book argues that taiko developed within and has come to express new forms of communal association in a Japan increasingly engaged with global cultural flows. While its popularity has created new opportunities for Japanese to participate in community life, this study also reveals how the discourses and practices of taiko drummers dramatize tensions inherent in Japanese conceptions of race, the body, gender, authenticity, and locality. ER -