America S Japan And Japan S Performing Arts

Author : Barbara Thornbury
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472029280

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America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts by Barbara Thornbury Pdf

America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan. Barbara E. Thornbury explores how “Japan” and “Japanese culture” have been constructed, reconstructed, and transformed in response to the hundreds of productions that have taken place over the past sixty years in New York, the main entry point and defining cultural nexus in the United States for the global touring market in the performing arts. The author’s transdisciplinary approach makes the book appealing to those in the performing arts studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Intellect Books
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783201587

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Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts by Intellect Books Pdf

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. “Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,” noted the online magazine Inside Higher Ed in a recent article about research in the social sciences and humanities. Even for those scholars who don’t work directly with international colleagues, staying up-to-date and relevant requires keeping up with international currents of thought in one’s field. But when one’s colleagues span the globe, it’s not always easy to keep track of who’s who—or what kind of research they’re conducting. That’s where Intellect’s new series comes in. A set of worldwide guides to leading academics—and their work—across the arts and humanities, Who’s Who in Research features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the areas of cultural studies, film studies, media studies, performing arts, and visual arts. Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts includes concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name, institution, biography, and current research interests, as well as bibliographic information and a list of articles published in Intellect journals. The volumes in the Who’s Who in Research series will be updated each year, providing the most current information on the foremost thinkers in academia and making them an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, academic libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.

Author : Barbara E. Thornbury
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438422084

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The Folk Performing Arts by Barbara E. Thornbury Pdf

CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books This is the first full-length study in English of Japan's folk performing arts covering such topics as the different categories of presentations, public policies affecting the folk performing arts, performance events within and without communities, and the folk performing arts in literature. Throughout, it addresses issues concerning the survival and preservation of traditional culture in contemporary Japan. Once largely unknown outside of their local community settings, Japan's folk performing arts have today captured universal attention. In Japan, almost every municipality is home to one or more of the diverse dramatic, dance, narrative, and musical presentations that make up the folk performing arts. They can be seen at events that range from long-established festivals to newly created folk-culture and tourist programs. Since the 1920s, a growing body of work by folklorists, theater historians, and other academic specialists, together with literary treatment by well-known authors, brought the folk performing arts into the national cultural spotlight. The postwar Cultural Properties Protection Law conferred on them the status of legally designated cultural assets.

Author : Roland Kelts
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781403984760

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Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. by Roland Kelts Pdf

An authority on Japanese and American pop culture examines the influence and popularity of Japanese animation in the U.S., discussing the American experience with anime and manga, from the epics of Hayao Miyazaki to the growing influx of hentai, a form of violent, pornographic anime. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190072728

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Extreme Exoticism by W. Anthony Sheppard Pdf

To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.

Author : Frank Hoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:963489727

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Song, Dance, Storytelling by Frank Hoff Pdf

Author : Terence Lancashire
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 1409431339

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An Introduction to Japanese Folk Performing Arts by Terence Lancashire Pdf

Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities; group dances to drive away disease-bearing spirits; or theatrical mime to portray the tenets of Buddhist teachings. Terence Lancashire provides a valuable introductory guide to the major performance types as understood by Japanese scholars.

Author : Barbara E. Thornbury
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791432556

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The Folk Performing Arts by Barbara E. Thornbury Pdf

Addresses issues concerning the survival and preservation of traditional culture by examining Japan's folk performing arts and the public policies that affect them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Japan
ISBN : PURD:32754069377749

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Japan Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Michigan. Audio-Visual Education Center,United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015034800154

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Film Resources on Japan by University of Michigan. Audio-Visual Education Center,United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476670324

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Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017 by Harris M. Lentz III Pdf

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2017 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

Author : Filippo Carlà-Uhink,Irene Berti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472532213

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Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts by Filippo Carlà-Uhink,Irene Berti Pdf

To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of the modern fantasy genre? What is the role of undead creatures like zombies and vampires in mythological films? Looking across the millennia, from the distrust of ancient magic and oriental cults, which threatened the new-born Christian religion, to the revival and adaptation of ancient myths and religion in the arts centuries later, this book offers an original analysis of the reception of ancient magic and the supernatural, across a wide variety of different media – from comics to film, from painting to opera. Working in a variety of fields across the globe, the authors of these essays deconstruct certain scholarly traditions by proposing original interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations, showing to what extent the visual and performing arts of different periods interlink and shape cultural and social identities.

Author : Hae-kyung Um
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135789909

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Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts by Hae-kyung Um Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Federal aid to museums
ISBN : PSU:000017169608

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Reauthorization of the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities Act Institute of Museum Services by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities Pdf

Author : Benito Ortolani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780691043333

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The Japanese Theatre by Benito Ortolani Pdf

From ancient ritualistic practices to modern dance theatre, this study provides concise summaries of all major theatrical art forms in Japan. It situates each genre in its particular social and cultural contexts, describing in detail staging, costumes, repertory and noteworthy actors.