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Vamping The Stage - Female Voices Of Asian Modernities

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 Provides the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia, showcasing cutting-edge research conducted by scholars whose methods and perspectives draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and film studies.
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Hawaiki Rising - Hokule'A, Nainoa Thompson, And The Hawaiian Renaissance

by Sam Low

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 In 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe - Hokule'a - was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hokule'a.
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Even In The Rain - Uyghur Music In Modern China

by Chuen-Fung Wong

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 Explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Uyghur homeland in the far Chinese northwest, Chuen-Fung Wong focuses on aspects of Uyghur music making as it faces the stateâ€™s management of minority art expressions.
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Homesick Blues - Politics, Protest, And Musical Storytelling In Modern Japan

by Scott W. Aalgaard

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 Explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that the book calls â€˜musical storytellingâ€™.
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Tango In Japan - Cosmopolitanism Beyond The West

by Yuiko Asaba

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Mimetic Desires - Impersonation And Guising Across South Asia

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 Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, â€˜God-menâ€™, performance artists, and participants in ritual enactments of sacred stories through dance and theatre, this book makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia and the world.
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Politics Of Control - Creating Red Culture In The Early People'S Republic Of China

by Chang-Tai Hung

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 Using a unique interdisciplinary, cultural-institutional analysis, Politics of Control is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party reshaped people's minds using multiple methods of control.
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Composing For The Revolution - Nie Er And China'S Sonic Nationalism

by Frederick Lau e Joshua H. Howard

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 Explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Traversing the life and legacy of Nie Er, Joshua Howard offers readers a profound insight into the meanings of nationalism and memory in contemporary China.
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Ethnographies Of Islam In China

by Darren Byler, Ge Caixia, Guangtian Ha, Michael C. Brose, Rachel Harris, Rahile Dawut e Wai Weng Hew

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 With contributions from a wide variety of scholars - all sharing a commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach - this volume provides the first comprehensive account of China's Islamic revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution.
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Community Music In Oceania - Many Voices, One Horizon

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 Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia, Timor-Leste, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea, the essays collected in this volume raise common themes in terms of the pedagogies and practices used, pointing collectively toward one horizon of approach.
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Making Waves - Traveling Musics In Hawaiâ€˜I, Asia, And The Pacific

by Andrew N. Weintraub, David D. Harnish, Frederick Lau, Henry Spiller, Kati Szego, R. Anderson Sutton e Ricardo D. Trimillos

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 Positions music as at once ritual and entertainment, esoteric and exoteric, tradition and creativity, within the cultural geographies of Hawaiâ€™i, Asia, and the Pacific. In doing so, the contributors situate music at the very core of global human endeavours.
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The Way Of The Cross - Suffering Selfhoods In The Roman Catholic Philippines

by Julius Bautista

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 Provides an in-depth analyses of three interconnected ritual acts: the pabasa, a days-long communal chanting of Christ's Passion story; the pagdarame, the public self-flagellation of hundreds of devotees; and the pamamaku king krus, in which steel nails are driven through the palms and feet of ritual practitioners as part of a street play.
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Minority Stages - Sino-Indonesian Performance And Public Display

by Josh Stenberg

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 Offers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, this communityâ€™s diverse performance practices are brought together as a family of genres.
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Networking The Russian Diaspora - Russian Musicians And Musical Activities In Interwar Shanghai

by John Winzenburg

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 As a pioneering study of the Russian community, Networking the Russian Diaspora examines its musical activities and influence in Shanghai. While the focus of the book is on music, it also gives insight into the social dynamics between Russians and other Europeans on the one hand, and with the Chinese on the other.
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Sound Of The Border - Music And Identity Of Korean Minority In China

by Sunhee Koo

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 Using ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, Sunhee Koo provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as manifestation of a displaced culture to its return home after more than a century of amalgamation and change in China.
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Cinema Is A Cat - A Cat Lover'S Introduction To Film Studies

by Daisuke Miyao

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 Watching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. In Cinema Is a Cat, Miyao uses the fascinating relationship between cats and cinema to offer a uniquely appealing introduction to film studies.
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Song King - Connecting People, Places, And Past In Contemporary China

by Frederick Lau e Levi S. Gibbs

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 Examines the life and performances of â€˜Folksong King of Western Chinaâ€™ Wang Xiangrong and explores how itinerant performers come to serve as representative symbols straddling different groups, connecting diverse audiences, and shifting between amorphous, place-based local, regional, and national identities.
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Beyond Ethnicity - New Politics Of Race In Hawai'I

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 Examines the dynamics between race, ethnicity, and indigeneity to challenge the primacy of ethnicity and cultural practices for examining difference in Hawai'i while recognising the significant role of settler colonialism. This original volume reveals what a racial analysis illuminates about the current political configuration of the islands.
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Rethinking Japanese Feminisms

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 Offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on a range of methodologies, each chapter presents the results of research based on original archival research, careful textual analysis, ethnographic interviews, and participant observation.
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Ryokan - Mobilizing Hospitality In Rural Japan

by Chris Mcmorran

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 The two dozen traditional inns, or ryokan, of the hot springs village resort of Kurokawa Onsen, draw nearly a million tourists a year Chris McMorran presents the realities of ryokan work - celebrated, messy, ignored, exploitative, and liberating - and introduces the people who keep the inns running by making guests feel at home.
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Unpredictable Agents - The Making Of Japan'S Americanists During The Cold War And Beyond

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 Twelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered ""America"" and came to dedicate their careers to studying it. Together, these essays illustrate the complex positionalities, fluid identities, ambivalent embrace, and unpredictable agency of Japan's Americanists.
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Balancing Communities - Nation, State, And Protestant Christianity In Korea, 1884-1942

by Cha

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 Starting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, this book examines how the competing demands of communal identities and memberships shaped the early history of Protestantism in Korea.
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Inclusion - How Hawai'I Protected Japanese Americans From Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, And Changed America

by Tom Coffman

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 Following December 7, 1941, when the United States government interned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry evicted from scattered settlements throughout the West Coast states, why was a much larger number concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands war zone not similarly incarcerated?
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Conflict In A Buddhist Society - Tibet Under The Dalai Lamas

by Peter Schwieger

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 Presents a new way of looking at Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lamas (1642-1959). Peter Schwieger attempts to make transparent the complexity and dynamics of the Dalai Lamas' domination using the work of sociologist Niklas Luhman (1927-1998) as his theoretical starting point.
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