{"product_id":"rakugo-lorie-brau-9780739122464","title":"Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo","description":"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 something more than simply popular entertainment: it is also regarded as the cultural heritage to which some Japanese may turn in a nostalgic search for identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorie Brau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0739122460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780739122464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.05w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 322","brand":"Lorie Brau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925831680255,"sku":"9780739122464","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_38ecca56-44cf-4852-8054-a050106cf7cc.jpg?v=1681079624","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rakugo-lorie-brau-9780739122464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}