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Rakugo

Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

By: Lorie Brau

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Rakugo

Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

By: Lorie Brau

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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Lexington Books

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0739122460

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9780739122464

Rakugo

Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

By: Lorie Brau

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Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

By: Lorie Brau

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.

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1461634105

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9781461634102

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