Shawn Bender, “Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion” (University of California Press, 2012)

Since the “taiko boom” of the closing decades of the 20thcentury, taiko drumming has arguably become Japan’s most globally successful performance medium. Shawn Bender‘s recent book takes us through the history and spaces of this art, from the stretching of animal skins to make its instruments through the seemingly incongruous...

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