Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching

by Carrie J. Preston and Carrie J Preston

Book Overview

In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231166508
• ISBN13: 9780231166508
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher