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Dance and Performance Studies eBook Series

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  • 24 Bars to Kill

    Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

    by Andrew B. Armstrong ...
    Series Book 14 - Dance and Performance Studies
    The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Art in the After-Culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

    by Ben Davis ...
    It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the boom of "creative" industries and the proliferation of new technologies for making art. In these important essays, Ben Davis covers everything from Instagram to artificial intelligence, eco-art to cultural appropriation. Critical, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Japanoise

    Music at the Edge of Circulation

    by David Novak ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.For ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Pop Culture

    The Culture of Everyday Life

    by Shirley Fedorak ...
    While usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of material, economic, and political culture. The author begins by defining popular culture, outlining criticisms, and examining the impact of globalization on pop culture. She then explores mass media and popular culture (soap operas, Egyptian melodramas, Afro-Cuban rap music, and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Blue Nippon

    Authenticating Jazz in Japan

    by E. Taylor Atkins ...
    Japan’s jazz community—both musicians and audience—has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz “can’t swing.” In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japan’s own attitude toward jazz is founded on this ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Healing Labor

    Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

    by Gabriele Koch ...
    Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy—but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Staged Seduction

    Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club

    by Akiko Takeyama ...
    In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Transforming Japan

    How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference

    Edited by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow ...
    A volume of essays by Japan's leading female scholars and activists exploring their country's recent progressive cultural shift.When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equality, education, politics, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hip-Hop Japan

    Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization

    by Ian Condry ...
    In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-described “yellow B-Boys” express their devotion to “black culture,” how they combine the figure of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture

    Edited by Yoshio Sugimoto ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

    Edited by Victoria Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, Akiko Yamagata ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD