Drumming against the quiet: The sounds of Asian American identity in an amorphous landscape

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 901-925

  Powell, Kimberly ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Amorphism; Asian American; Identity; Performance; Performativity; Race; Taiko

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449093990     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408318308     Document Type: Article

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