America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the Un
There is a growing awareness that the arts and culture have an important role to play in forming the image that nations hold of themselves. Cross-cultural analy
To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation
Winner of the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research (2018) Flowers Cracking Concrete is the first in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Ko
A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the ef