America's Japan and Japan's performing arts
Subtitle: cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011
By: Barbara E. Thornbury
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780472118854; 9780472029280
Subjects: Theater; History; Performing arts; Influence; Intercultural communication in the performing arts; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; HISTORY / Asia / Japan; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Description: " 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249).