Rakugo - Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

Informationen zum Autor Lorie Brau 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lorie Brau, Brau Lorie
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2008
• EAN: 9780739122457
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2245-7
• Pagine: 255
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Altro; ART / Asian / General, DRAMA / Asian / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling, Literature & literary studies, History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, Other performing arts, Plays, Playscripts