Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts 1st Edition by Hae Kyung Um 9780700715862 070071586X

Part 1: Asian diasporas and performing arts

1: Identity, modernity and power in the performing arts among the Chinese diasporas

Chinese diaspora

Modernization, culture, power and the performing arts

The performing arts and the Chinese diasporas

Conclusion

References

2: Morphing Chineseness

Early Chinese immigrants in Singapore and traditional music activities

Er Woo Yuyu Ruyueshe (Confucian music association)

Thau Yong Amateur Music Association

Conclusion: morphing Chineseness

Notes

References

3: Community, Identity and Performing Arts

Introduction

History of Korean migration to the former USSR

History of Korean migration to China

Soviet and Chinese cultural policies: their impact on the Korean diasporas

Performing arts of the Korean diaspora in the former Soviet Union and China

Geo-political changes and their influences on the construction of identity and performing arts among the Korean diasporas

Community, identity and memory

Conclusion

Notes

References

4: Dancing in the tomb of samba

Introduction

From street to stadium: a short history of carnival

Fancy dressing in the street

Nikkei participation in carnival

Dancing in the Salon

‘Japones’ on the parade

Conclusion

Notes

References

5: Noisy intersection*

Playing

The Rev. Tom

The taiko ‘group’

Philosophy, ownership, authenticity

Notes

References

6: Arangetrams and manufacturing identity

Introduction

Bharata natyam and the historical context of the arangetram

The arangetram – its contemporary significance

Notes

References

7: South Asian Music in Britain

Introduction

South Asian music in Britain: demographic perspectives

Pan-South Asian musical genres in Britain

The community organization of North and South Indian music in Britain

Music in South Asian communities: location

Language, religion and region as reflected in music

Concepts of ‘classical’ and ‘popular’, ‘tradition’ Band ‘change’

New popular South Asian musics in Britain: influences

Conclusion

Glossary

Notes

References

8: Idealization and change in the music of the Cambodian diaspora

Introduction

Music of Khmer refugees in the US and in France

Patterns of change

A diachronic survey

Conclusions

Notes

References

9: Nagi music and community

Nagi community

Nagi language, religion and culture

Nagi music

Conclusion

Notes

References

Part 2: Intercultural performances and transnational audiences

10: Jingju (Beijing/Peking ‘opera’) as international art and as transnational root of cultural identification

Jingju in Shanghai and Nanjing today

Jingju at the University of Hawai’i

Notes

References

11: ‘Mirrors’ of West and ‘mirrors’ of East

Historical development of gagaku

Evolution of Japanese art music in the twentieth century

Re-contextualized gagaku: interpretive criteria and analysis of hybridized art forms

Further considerations: erosion of cultural boundaries

Glossary of terms

Notes

12: Theatrical collaboration in the age of globalization

Introduction

NYID and Gekidan Kaitaisha

Rethinking interculturalism: collaboration as confusion

The confusion of forms

Reconciliation of opposite performance practices

Limits to/of representation

Memory as history/history as memory