Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko 9780520973152

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Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko
9780520973152

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Deborah Wong

Table of contents :
Contents
Contents
List of Video and Audio Examples
Introduction
Transition: Don
1. Looking, Listening, and Moving
2. Inventories: The Material Culture of Taiko
Transition: She Dances on a Taiko
3. Dancing the Body Politic
Transition: Unison and Circles
4. Good Gigs, Bad Gigs: Drumming between Hope and Anger
5. Taiko, Erotics, and Anger
Transition: From My Journal—Learning and Playing “Miyake,” May 8, 2006
6. Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More
7. Cruising the Pac Rim: Driven to Thrill
Transition: How to Leave a Taiko Group
Conclusion: Core Values
Notes
Acknowledgments
Glossary
References
American Crossroads
Index

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