America's Japan and Japan's performing arts : cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 /

This book 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 i...

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Main Author: Thornbury, Barbara E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • America's Kabuki-Japan
  • "America's Japan," the Performing Arts, and Japan Society, New York
  • De-familiarizing Japan at La MaMa E.T.C.
  • Claiming the New, Reclaiming the Old in "Music From Japan"
  • Lincoln Center Festival's Japan
  • Negotiating the Foreign : Language, American Audiences, and Theater from Japan
  • Closure and Counterpoint : The JapanNYC Festival, the Earthquake and Tsunami Benefit Concerts, and Circuits of Mobility and Exchange, 2010-2011.