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America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts: Cultural Mobility and Exchange in New York, 1952-2011

Barbara E. Thornbury 2013
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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.
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ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-03678-3 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-02928-0 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-11885-4 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Asian Studies:Japan
  • Theater and Performance
  • American Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Japanese Names and Terms
  • Introduction
  • 1. America's Kabuki-Japan
  • 2. “America's Japan,” the Performing Arts, and Japan Society, New York
  • 3. De-familiarizing Japan at La MaMa E.T.C.
  • 4. Claiming the New, Reclaiming the Old in “Music From Japan”
  • 5. Lincoln Center Festival's Japan
  • 6. Negotiating the Foreign: Language, American Audiences, and Theater from Japan
  • 7. Closure and Counterpoint: The JapanNYC Festival, the Earthquake and Tsunami Benefit Concerts, and Circuits of Mobility and Exchange, 2010–2011
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
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