Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West by Yuiko Asaba Hardcover Book

by Yuiko Asaba Hardcover

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Tango in Japan by Yuiko Asaba Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of tango in Japan dating back to its first introduction in the 1910s to the present day. While initially brought to Yokohama by North American tango dancers in 1914, tango's immediate popularity in Japan quickly compelled many Japanese performers and writers to travel to Argentina in search of tango's "origin" beginning in the 1920s. Many Japanese musicians, dancers, aficionados, and the wider public have, since then, approached tango as a new vehicle of expression, entertainment, and academic pursuit. The sounds of tango provided comfort and a sense of hope to many during the most turbulent years of the twentieth century, carving out distinctive characteristics of contemporary Japanese tango culture. Bypassing the West-East axis of understanding cultural transmission, Tango in Japan uncovers the processes of attraction, rejection, and self-transformation, illuminating the tension of cosmopolitan endeavors away from the Euro-American West. Based on Yuiko Asaba's field and archival work undertaken in both Japanese and Spanish languages in Japan and Argentina across two decades, and drawing on her own background as a tango violinist who performed as a member of tango orchestras in both countries, the discussions

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780824895693
• Condition: Fine

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