Research Catalog

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Description

1. 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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. Thornbury crosses disciplinary boundaries in her wide range of both primary sources and published scholarship, making the book of interest to students and scholars of performing arts studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies"--

Subject

1. Intercultural communication in the performing arts
2. Theater > United States > History > 21st century
3. Theater > United States > History > 20th century
4. Performing arts > Japan > Influence

Call number

1. MWED 13-4491

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-249) and index.

Author

1. Thornbury, Barbara E.

Title

1. America's Japan and Japan's performing arts : cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 / Barbara E. Thornbury.

Publisher

1. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-249) and index.

LCCN

1. 2013000017

ISBN

1. 9780472118854 (hardback)
2. 0472118854 (hardback)
3. 9780472029280 (e-book)
4. 0472029282 (e-book)

Research call number

1. MWED 13-4491