Rakugo (eBook)

Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

Lorie Brau (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2008
274 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4616-3410-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary performance culture: the image, training and techniques of the storytellers, the venues where they perform, and the role of the audience in sustaining the art. Laurie Brau inquires into how this comic art form participates in the discourse of heritage, serving as a symbol of the Edo culture, while continuing to appeal to Japanese today. Written in an accessible manner, this book is appropriate for all levels of student or researcher.

Autor

Lorie Brau is assistant professor of Japanese in the department of foreign languages and literatures at the University of New Mexico.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter I: Ethnographer as Mummy HunterChapter 3 Chapter II: A Night at the YoseChapter 4 Chapter III: What Makes Rakugo Rakugo?Chapter 5 Chapter IV: Wits, Outlaws, Flatterers, and Antiquarians: Hanashika HeritageChapter 6 Chapter V: Rehearsing Tradition: Zenza Apprenticeship and the Hanashika CareerChapter 7 Chapter VI: Producing Rakugo: Traditional and Alternative Performance ContextsChapter 8 Chapter VII: Making a Hit with Classical RakugoChapter 9 Chapter VIII: Rakugo Audiences and FansChapter 10 Conclusion: Tokyo Rakugo and Heritage

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-3410-5 / 1461634105
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-3410-2 / 9781461634102