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2) America's Japan and Japan's performing arts: cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011
Author
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"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 United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan. Barbara E. Thornbury explores how "Japan"...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Allegedly found in the ruins of a bombed-out dog kennel in France during World War I, then brought to Los Angeles by Lee Duncan, the soldier who found and trained him, by 1927 Rin Tin Tin had become Hollywood's number one box-office star. Susan Orlean's book--about the dog and the legend--is a poignant exploration of the enduring bond between humans and animals. It is also a richly textured history of twentieth-century entertainment and entrepreneurship....
Author
Series
Studies in major literary authors volume 14
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An oral history by the best-selling co-author of Those Guys Have All the Fun chronicles the revolutionary role of the forefront Hollywood talent agency through the stories of its influence on major film, television, sports, music and business ventures throughout the past half century,"--NoveList.
12) Olio
Author
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com.