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Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7449-7
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Faster and Louder: Heterosexist Improvisation in North American Taiko
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Published:March 2016
This chapter addresses the fraught interface between improvisation and women. While critical studies of improvisation in jazz have offered powerful progressive ideals of social transformation, they rarely acknowledge the overwhelming presence of men who improvise and the silent majority of women who don’t. The chapter focuses on improvised solos in taiko, the contemporary tradition of Japanese drumming now firmly established in North America. Asian Americans literally play themselves into visibility and audibility through taiko, but musical mastery, skill, and authority are always gendered and raced. The practice of improvised soloing in taiko is embedded in transnational circuits of gendered...
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