Louder and Faster is a study of taiko in California, focused on the play of sound, performance, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, and politics. Wong explores taiko as a music/dance art form that creates spaces in which memories of the WW2 Japanese American incarceration, Asian American identity, and a desire to be seen/heard intersect with global capitalism, the complications of mediation, and legacies of imperialism. Based on two decades of participatory ethnographic work, the book offers a vivid glimpse of an Asian American presence both loud and fragile.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Examples
- Introduction
- Transition: Don
- 1. Looking, Listening, and Moving
- 2. Inventories: The Material Culture of Taiko
- Transition: She Dances on a Taiko
- 3. Dancing the Body Politic: Obon and Bon-odori
- Transition: Unison and Circles
- 4. Good Gigs, Bad Gigs: Drumming between Hope and Anger
- 5. Taiko, Erotics, and Anger
- Transition: From My Journal—Learning and Playing “Miyake,”May 8, 2006
- 6. Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More
- 7. Cruising the Pac Rim: Driven to Thrill
- Transition: How to Leave a Taiko Group
- Conclusion: Core Values
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- References
- Series: American Crossroads
- Index
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