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Author : Durnell, H. B.
Publisher : Tokyo : Hokuseido Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015005780302
Author : Benito Ortolani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0691043337
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.
Author : Stanca Scholz-Cionca,Samuel Leiter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004483057
This well-illustrated work is the first attempt to bridge the gap between several specialized discourses concerning Japanese theatre. Central are problems of scholarly and practical reception of Japanese theatre forms in the West. The essays by a careful selection of internationally well-reputed scholars range widely through Japanese theatre, from the ancient to the postmodern, or, one might say, from kagura to angura. It deals with reception of Japanese theatre in the West, the treatment of the body in stage art and drama, Western influence, the impact of Japanese theatre practice and theory upon the actor’s training, and stage directing in the West. Readers will come across a wide variety of intriguing topics, such as lion dances, kabuki, nôh, folk theatre, taishu engeki, and several important modern playwrights, etc. This book truly promises to intensify future dialogue between the many disciplines concerned with Japanese theatre.
Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190072728
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 : Ortolani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004484146
An up-to-date cultural history of the Japanese theatre in all its forms including primitive rituals, court and popular dance-drama, puppet shows and westernized plays, is narrated here for the first time in English by a western authority in the field. The book underlines Zeami and Zenchiku's secret tradition of the nō, explaining Zen-inspired spiritual teachings for the actor's training on the way to enlightened performance. It also gives relevance to the transformation of an anti-establishment entertainment by prostitutes into spectacular kabuki stagecraft, and to the modernization process which created shingeki modern drama, and moved it into the context of world theatre. The final chapter summarizes the history of western discovery of the Japanese stage. The illustrations, the indexes, the glossary and the extensive bibliography — including all major literature in western languages until 1989 — also contribute to make this volume a must for all students of the Japanese theatre, and for anyone interested in a better understanding of Japanese culture as mirrored in its theatrical component.
Author : J. McCutcheon,B. Sellers-Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137320056
This volume of essays combines research from neuroscience, conscious studies, methods of training performers, modes of creating a staged narrative, Asian aesthetics, and post-modern theories of performance in an examination of the relationship between consciousness and performance.
Author : Sanehide Kodama
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011230565
Author : Ju Yon Kim
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781479897896
Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams. While public debates about Asian Americans have invoked quotidian practices to support inconsistent claims about racial difference, diverse aesthetic projects have tested these claims by experimenting with the relationships among habit, body, and identity. In The Racial Mundane, Ju Yon Kim argues that the ambiguous relationship between behavioral tendencies and the body has sustained paradoxical characterizations of Asian Americans as ideal and impossible Americans. The body’s uncertain attachment to its routine motions promises alternately to materialize racial distinctions and to dissolve them. Kim’s study focuses on works of theater, fiction, and film that explore the interface between racialized bodies and everyday enactments to reveal new and latent affiliations. The various modes of performance developed in these works not only encourage audiences to see habitual behaviors differently, but also reveal the stakes of noticing such behaviors at all. Integrating studies of race, performance, and the everyday, The Racial Mundane invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny.
Author : Roy Collins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1469108054
In Fire Over Heaven author/artist Roy Collins uncovers the ancient origins of the Chinese yin/yang dialectic and the I Ching (Book of Changes) and explains the complex debate over their meanings. Inspired by art historian Ernest Fenollosa’s early work on the exchange of cross-cultural art and design motifs, Collins has reasoned that a similar path of transmission had also heightened the barter of both ideas and languages. He further argues that due to the nature of cultural differences and individual perception, it often becomes obligatory for people to make slight adjustments in word sounds, art forms, and visual styles in order for new transitions to be acceptable. From Africa’s Rift Valley, across the sands of the “Silk Route” and into the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village, Collins cites examples of specific key words and ideas from well-known artists, philosophers, poets, physicists, historians, political officials, and scientists to show how their interpretations differ from the original usage. It is a literary/psychological journey that extends back over three million years in time and, according to Collins, is slated to continue as long as the human race evolves in time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015021962090
Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824863753
How do classical, highly codified theatre arts retain the interest of today's audiences and how do they grow and respond to their changing circumstances? The eight essays presented here examine the contemporary relevance and significance of the "classic" No and Kyogen theatre to Japan and the West. They explore the theatrical experience from many perspectives--those of theatre, music, dance, art, literature, linguistics, philosophy, religion, history and sociology.
Author : Sang-Kyong Lee
Publisher : Wild Peony (AU)
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015050483893
From the middle of the nineteenth century, East Asia fell increasingly under the influence of the West. However, at the same time, there was a decided trend in the opposite direction, especially in the realm of theater, the central meeting point of the cultural encounter. While the stimuli and impulses emanating from American drama are sufficiently well documented, there are no thoroughgoing studies on the effects of East Asian theater on drama and theater in America. This relatively neglected aspect of cultural cross-fertilization is investigated in the book. The research is based on the evaluation of interviews and theater visits, and an analysis of historical sources and the relevant works/productions of Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Wilson, and Stephen Sondheim.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983-09
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015048601697
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373591
A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811210251
This book talks about Kenneth's twenty-seven essays written over a period of time of more than forty years. It remains the sanest guide to the cultural upheaval in American society since World War II.