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Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo Lorie Brau
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Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo
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
274 pages, figures
| Size | S |
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 15, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780739122457 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 274 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 237 × 22 mm · 553 g |
| Language | English |