Rakugo - Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

Informationen zum Autor Lorie Brau is assistant professor of Japanese in the department of foreign languages and literatures at the University of New Mexico. Klappentext Rakugo introduces the storytelling genre of Edo-style rakugo as performed around the turn of the twenty-first century, focusing on the performers' image, training, and techniques and the art's contexts and audiences. Brau argues that, while storytellers' goal of making a hit with audiences sustains the art's vitality, rakugo has come to represent something more than simply popular entertainment: it is also regarded as the cultural heritage to which some Japanese may turn in a nostalgic search for identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter I: Ethnographer as Mummy Hunter Chapter 3 Chapter II: A Night at the Yose Chapter 4 Chapter III: What Makes Rakugo Rakugo? Chapter 5 Chapter IV: Wits, Outlaws, Flatterers, and Antiquarians: Hanashika Heritage Chapter 6 Chapter V: Rehearsing Tradition: Zenza Apprenticeship and the Hanashika Career Chapter 7 Chapter VI: Producing Rakugo: Traditional and Alternative Performance Contexts Chapter 8 Chapter VII: Making a Hit with Classical Rakugo Chapter 9 Chapter VIII: Rakugo Audiences and Fans Chapter 10 Conclusion: Tokyo Rakugo and Heritage

Product details

• Authors: Lorie Brau, Brau Lorie
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2008
• EAN: 9780739122464
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2246-4
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / Asian / General, DRAMA / Asian / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling, Literature & literary studies, History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, Other performing arts, Plays, Playscripts