America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the Un

Winner of the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research (2018) Flowers Cracking Concrete is the first in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Ko

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. “Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being incr

To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation

Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and