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The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this sophisticated and historically grounded analysis, anthropologist Jennifer Robertson draws from over a decade of fieldwork and archival research to explore how the Revue illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan. The Revue was…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2001University of California Press · 278 pages · 9780520211513
- Other · English · 1998University of California Press · 320 pages · 9780520920125
- Other · English · 1998University of California Press · 278 pages · 9780520211506
EthnologyMusicalsPopular cultureSex roleSocial life and customsSocial structureTakarazuka KagekidanTheater