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Minoru Kanda

@Minoru

Atualmente reside na província de Nara. Seu bisavô era um issei que migrou para o Havaí em 1900. Sua avó era nissei. Graduado pelo Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Doshisha. Estudou Literatura e Cultura Asiático-Americana com o Prof. You Nakayama (Universidade Kyoto Seika). Adquiriu interesse pela música popular asiático-americana. Voluntário na Asian Improv aRts/Records (San Francisco e Chicago) como coordenador de comunicação japonês. Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa de Literatura Asiático-Americana e do Grupo de Pesquisa sobre Migração.

Atualizado em janeiro de 2010


Stories from This Author

Folk Songs Left by the 1970’s Asian American Movement - Part 2

2 de Abril de 2012 • Minoru Kanda

Read Part 1 >>About Some Songs1. TANFORAN (Is anybody there?)(Horikoshi and Takimoto)This song begins with the sound of knocking at the former Tanforan Assembly Center, and narration. Although the center served as a temporary holding facility in San Bruno in the outskirts of San Francisco, it is now disappearing from people’s memories. TANFORAN was a standard song always played in YOKOHAMA, CALIFORNIA’s live performances. Even prior to the commencement of the redress movement, the song uses the word “home” to …

Folk Songs Left by the 1970’s Asian American Movement - Part 1

26 de Março de 2012 • Minoru Kanda

Background and Issue Awareness: YOKOHAMA, CALIFORNIA is the title of an LP record released by Asian American musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose. Strongly influenced by A Grain of Sand (1973) by Chris Iijima, Nobuko Miyamoto, and Charlie Chin, the music was created in the midst of the Asian American movement. The front jacket photograph, taken in J-Town, San Jose, depicts the atmosphere of those days, with not only the band members but also P.J. Hirabayashi …

Review: Textured Lives: Stories from the Plantations of Hawai‘i (DVD)

29 de Junho de 2011 • Minoru Kanda

Last August (2010), during the Obon holiday, it was in the sweltering heat of Tokyo that I saw this documentary film for the very first time. My friend, Shin Miyata (representing Music Camp), organized the screening and invited the film’s producer/director, Akira Boch, from Los Angeles for the event. After a modest introduction by Mr. Boch, the film began with an image of Japanese workers on a sugarcane plantation, coupled with a voiceover by Barbara Kawakami, who is the main …

レビュー:BIG DRUM - Taiko in the United States (2005)

23 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Minoru Kanda

去年の12月、San Jose Taikoの主要メンバーと京都で会う機会があった。予想通り、とても魅力的な人たちであった。この魅力はどこから来るのか。単なる個人の性格の問題ではない。その魅力は、彼らが、Taikoという楽器の演奏者(Player)であると同時に、Taikoを集団で演奏することにより、自分たち自身のリズムを作り出し、自分たちが楽しみ、そして聴衆をも楽しませる術(すべ)を知っていることから来る魅力なのかもしれない。Taikoを含む打楽器のビートには、人種や民族や…

映画評  『アメリカンパスタイム 俺たちの星条旗』 デズモンド・ナカノ監督作品 2007

3 de Agosto de 2007 • Minoru Kanda

単館ながら東京でも上映された作品だが、未見の方もおられると思うので、粗筋から紹介したい。ネタバレの部分もあるかもしれないけれどもご容赦下さい。 ロサンゼルス生まれのライル・ノムラは1世の両親を持つ日系2世。一家ではじめて奨学金を得、サンフランシスコ州立大学へ進学する筈だった。しかし 1941年12月7日を境に、彼の、そして家族の運命はすっかり変わってしまう。他の12万人の日系アメリカ人と同じく、ノムラ一家も告知後10日間で家 や仕事、殆どの財産を手放し、ユタ州のド田舎…

書評 『南北アメリカの日系文化』山本岩夫・ウェルズ恵子・赤木恵子 編(人文書院)2007

1 de Junho de 2007 • Minoru Kanda

本書は、日系人を、国と地域別にカナダ・合衆国本土・ハワイ・南米各国の四つに分け、その文化を紹介し論じる試みである。従来の日本人による日系人 研究に弱点があるとすれば、それは、歴史研究や社会変動、アイデンティティ問題などに片寄り、日系人のありふれた日常生活に表れるトリビアな文化の記号を すくい取れてこなかったことだろう。この論文集は、立命館大学で組織された日系人研究グループが連続して開催した公開講座の講義録の上に成立した背景を持 ち、また、執筆者はそれぞれのスタイルでそれぞれ…

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