TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thornbury,Barbara E.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - America's Japan and Japan's performing arts: cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 
AV  - PN2266.5 .T48 2013eb
U1  - 792.0973/0904 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Theater
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Japan
KW  - Influence
KW  - Intercultural communication in the performing arts
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "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 United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan. Barbara E. Thornbury explores how "Japan" and "Japanese culture" have been constructed, reconstructed, and transformed in response to the hundreds of productions that have taken place over the past sixty years in New York, the main entry point and defining cultural nexus in the United States for the global touring market in the performing arts. Thornbury crosses disciplinary boundaries in her wide range of both primary sources and published scholarship, making the book of interest to students and scholars of performing arts studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10692968
ER  -