Music Assignment – Taiko

Answer the following questions after reading Paul Yoon’s “She’s Really Become Japanese Now!: Taiko Drumming and Asian American Identifications.” (Attached file)

1. In what ways have members of Soh Daiko imagined/constructed the group as a mixture or rejection of certain “American” and “Japanese” cultural stereotypes?

2. How has Soh Daiko negotiated an Asian American identity within a Japanese expressive practice?

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