Louder and Faster
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Description
Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
9780520973152
List of Figures
List of Video and Audio Examples
Introduction
What taiko is and what it could become
(Pre)Histories
Taiko in critical perspective
Multimedia ethnomusicology
Transition: Don
1. Looking, Listening, and Moving
Music as a problem
Analyzing “Aranami”
Looking #1
Pictures that move
How I don’t want to look at taiko
Looking #2: Why it’s hard to photograph Japanese Americans
Three ways of looking at taiko
Moving: This is how these moments come together
Moving through the image
2. Inventories: The Material Culture of Taiko
What’s in my bag
Things
From my journal, June 8, 2003
An inventory of the taiko owned by Rev. Tom Kurai
Made in the US?
Clothing makes the taiko player
What, where, and why things matter
Transition: She Dances on a Taiko
3. Dancing the Body Politic
The body politic
Getting ready to dance
Making a Buddhist tradition
Taiko and bon-odori
Ruptures
“Bon-Odori Uta”
Bon-odori as pilgrimage
“Tanko Bushi”
Creating new bon-odori
It’s YOUR song!
Dancing without end
Transition: Unison and Circles
4. Good Gigs, Bad Gigs: Drumming between Hope and Anger
Pilgrims at Manzanar
Following the Dragon Boats
5. Taiko, Erotics, and Anger
Playing
Pleasure
Gendered pleasure in taiko
Glamorous women and transnational femininity
Honō Daiko and the samurai body
Satori Daiko’s women back at home
Asian American masculinity and martial arts
He’s Hung
Taiko is our Bruce Lee
Brother Bruce was on my wall
Japanese hypermasculinity
Baring it all for taiko
Transition: From My Journal—Learning and Playing “Miyake,” May 8, 2006
6. Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More
Self-examination
Locating the body politic
Failing at form
Talking about pain
Japanese → Japanese American pain
7. Cruising the Pac Rim: Driven to Thrill
Transnationalism and globalization
First pass: race, gender, and sex
The Mitsubishi Eclipse
Racing cars and racialization
J-cool
Participation, accountability, disclosures, foreclosures, interventions, guilt
Taiko in the Pacific Rim theater
Transition: How to Leave a Taiko Group
Conclusion: Core Values
Notes
Acknowledgments
Glossary
References
American Crossroads
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