Louder and Faster is a study of taiko in California, focused on the play of sound, performance, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, and politics. Wong explores taiko as a music/dance art form that creates spaces in which memories of the WW2 Japanese American incarceration, Asian American identity, and a desire to be seen/heard intersect with global capitalism, the complications of mediation, and legacies of imperialism. Based on two decades of participatory ethnographic work, the book offers a vivid glimpse of an Asian American presence both loud and fragile.
- ISBN10 0520973151
- ISBN13 9780520973152
- Publish Date 10 September 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 266
- Language English