Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion Volume 23

by Shawn Bender

Book Overview

With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, Taiko Boom explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades of rapid economic growth in Japan's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520272420
• ISBN13: 9780520272422
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"