Affiliation:
1. 1Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, USA, lorenz@oxy.edu
Abstract
Over the past decade there has been an unprecedented surge of interest in taiko ensemble drumming (kumi-daiko) in Brazil, with more than 150 ensembles currently performing in states all across the country. This paper focuses on the performance and pedagogy of Setsuo Kinoshita, a second-generation Japanese Brazilian taiko musician and composer who maintains a successful taiko academy in São Paulo, Brazil and directs two ensembles, Wadaiko Sho and Setsuo Kinoshita Taiko Group. Based on class and performance observation, as well as interviews conducted with Kinoshita and his students between 2003 and 2013, this study argues that Brazilian styles of taiko practice, which work to heal the traumas of ethnic exclusion from the Brazilian nation state, emerge at the crossroads of Japanese and Brazilian kinesonic repertoires.
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