Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions

by Um,Hae-kyung; Um,Hae-kyung

• ISBN13: 9780415405911
• ISBN10: 0415405912
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-08-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In an age of globalization, performance is increasingly drawn from intercultural creativity and located in multicultural settings. This volume is the first to focus on the performing arts of Asian diasporas in the context of modernity and multiculturalism. The essays locate the contemporary performing arts as a discursive field in which the boundaries between tradition and translation, and authenticity and hybridity are redefined and negotiated to create a multitude of meaning and aesthetics in global and local contexts. With contributions from scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, anthropology, cultural studies, dance ethnology and musicology, this truly interdisciplinary work covers every aspect of the sociology of performance of the Asian diasporas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Asian Diasporas and Performing Arts

Power, Identity, Modernity and the Performing Arts among Diasporas: Background ideas from the Chinese case

Morphing Chineseness: The changing image of Chinese music clubs in Singapore

Community, Identity and Performing Arts: The Korean diaspora in China and the former Soviet Union

Dancing in the Tomb of Samba: Japanese-Brazilian presence/absence in Suo Paulo carnival

Noisy Intersection: Ethnicity, authenticity and ownership in Asian American Taiko

Arangetrams and Manufacturing Identity: The changing role of a Bharata Natyam dancer's solo debut in the context of the diaspora

South Asian music in Britain Gerry Farrell with

Idealization and Changes in the Music of the Cambodian Diaspora

Nagi Music and Community: Belonging and displacement in Larantuka, Eastern Indonesia

Intercultural Performances and Transnational Audiences

Jingju (Beijing/Peking Opera) as International Art and as Transnational Root of Cultural Identification: Process of creation and reception in Shanghai

'Mirrors' of West and 'Mirrors' of East: Elements of Gagaku in post-war art music

Theatrical Collaboration in the Age of Globalization: The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID Intercultural Collaboration Project

Index

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