Announcing Books from 2012 on Japanese Performing Arts

Below is a partial list of books on various aspects of the performing arts in Japan that were published in English on major academic presses in 2012.

The Japanese Performing Arts SIG intends to periodically offer these bibliographic lists as a service to the profession. Please inform us of any additional books to add to this list.

Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion

By Shawn Bender (University of California Press, 2012)

Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan

By Michelle Bigenho (Duke University Press, 2012)

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop

By Michael Bourdaughs (Columbia University Press, 2012)

Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-Making in Yaeyama and Okinawa

By Matt Gillan (Ashgate Press, 2012)

Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools

By David Hebert (Springer Press, 2012)

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions

By Keith Howard (Ashgate Press, 2012)

Hearts of Pine

By Joshua D. Pilzer (Oxford University Press, 2012)