Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics
by
Angela K. Ahlgren
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan. Harnessed by Japanese Americans in the late 1960s, taiko's sonic largesse and buoyant energy challenged stereotypical images of Asians in America as either model minorities...