Taiko Boom

Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion

By: Shawn Bender

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Paperback | 7 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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 cities and countryside. Building on the insights of globalization studies, the book argues that taiko developed within and has come to express new forms of communal association in a Japan increasingly engaged with global cultural flows. While its popularity has created new opportunities for Japanese to participate in community life, this study also reveals how the discourses and practices of taiko drummers dramatize tensions inherent in Japanese conceptions of race, the body, gender, authenticity, and locality.

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"Destined to be a classic text... Those who really want to know Japanese drumming will find this book essential." -- Stan Shikuma International Examiner "Thorough... Recommended." -- D.J. Schmalenberger, McNally Smith College of Music Choice "Well researched, immensely detailed, this may well be the last word, or sound, on the subject for a long time." Japan Times

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Note on Translation, Japanese Names, and Romanization	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Emergence and Popularization of Taiko
Taiko Drums and Taiko Drum Makers	p. 25
Genealogies of Taiko I: Osuwa Daiko, Sukeroku Daiko, Ondekoza	p. 48
Genealogies of Taiko II: Ondekoza to Kodo	p. 73
Placing Ensemble Taiko in Japan: Festival Creation and the Taiko Boom	p. 105
Discourses of Contemporary Taiko
(Dis)Locating Drumming: Taiko Training, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Race and Place	p. 119
Woman Unbound? Body and Gender in Japanese Taiko	p. 142
The Sound of Militarism? New Texts, Old Nationalism, and the Disembodiment of Taiko Technique	p. 170
Epilogue: Taiko at Home and Abroad	p. 190
Notes	p. 203
References	p. 227
Index	p. 241
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