Wicked Theory, Naked Practice

Wicked Theory, Naked Practice
Title Wicked Theory, Naked Practice PDF eBook
Author Fred Wei-han Ho
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 450
Release 2009
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816656843

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A leading Asian American artist & activist on the explosive intersection of politics and music.

Enfolding Silence

Enfolding Silence
Title Enfolding Silence PDF eBook
Author Brett J. Esaki
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 281
Release 2016
Genre Art
ISBN 0190251425

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"Japanese Americans developed complex silences in response to social and religious marginalization. Utilizing case studies and histories of Japanese American arts--gardening, origami, jazz, and monuments. Enfolding Silence employs interdisciplinary analysis to uncover 'non-binary silences' that are mixtures of silences from religion, art, and oppression"--Provided by publisher.

Yellow Power, Yellow Soul

Yellow Power, Yellow Soul
Title Yellow Power, Yellow Soul PDF eBook
Author Roger N. Buckley
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 291
Release 2013-04-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0252094700

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This dynamic collection explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics. Scholars, artists, and friends give their unique takes on Ho's career, articulating his artistic contributions, their joint projects, and personal stories. Exploring his musical and theatrical work, his political theory and activism, and his personal life as it relates to politics, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul offers an intimate appreciation of Fred Ho's irrepressible and truly original creative spirit. Contributors are Roger N. Buckley, Peggy Myo-Young Choy, Jayne Cortez, Kevin Fellezs, Diane C. Fujino, Magdalena Gómez, Richard Hamasaki, Esther Iverem, Robert Kocik, Genny Lim, Ruth Margraff, Bill V. Mullen, Tamara Roberts, Arthur J. Sabatini, Kalamu ya Salaam, Miyoshi Smith, Arthur Song, and Salim Washington.

Refractions of the Scriptural

Refractions of the Scriptural
Title Refractions of the Scriptural PDF eBook
Author Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher Routledge
Pages 175
Release 2016-02-19
Genre Religion
ISBN 1317243579

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Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks to construct a new field of scholarly inquiry with scriptures as a fraught category, analytical wedge, and site for excavation and problematization. The book focuses on the ways in which individual and social bodies manipulate—and are manipulated by— the politics and power encoded in language and formalized canonical knowledge. Scriptures, in this sense, function as complex phenomena that are instrumental to social conservatism as well as social critique and social change. The essays in this volume, written by established and up-and-coming scholars across a wide range of disciplines, seek to locate, engage, and interpret the ways in which the scriptural shapes and reshapes people and the dynamics of identity formation. The chapters are organized around four domains or types of inquiry: the cognitive, the conscientized, the inscriptive, and the formative. It will be of interest to scholars of religion, as well as those interested more broadly in critical social and historical studies.

Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3

Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3
Title Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3 PDF eBook
Author Asha Nadkarni
Publisher Asian American Literature in T
Pages 437
Release 2021-06-17
Genre History
ISBN 1108843859

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This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965-1996. It is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to scholars from a variety of disciplines, interested in the formation of Asian American literary studies from 1965-1996.

Extreme Exoticism

Extreme Exoticism
Title Extreme Exoticism PDF eBook
Author W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 641
Release 2019-09-16
Genre Music
ISBN 0190072717

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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 for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism
Title The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism PDF eBook
Author Immanuel Ness
Publisher Springer
Pages 1443
Release 2016-04-29
Genre History
ISBN 0230392784

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism objectively presents the prominent themes, epochal events, theoretical explanations, and historical accounts of imperialism from 1776 to the present. It is the most historically and academically comprehensive examination of the subject to date.