ABSTRACT
In the past several decades the study of diasporas1 and transnational cultures has become increasingly important in many fields of intellectual investigation associated with modernity and post-modernist culture.2 In the current context of late modernity and globalization, performance is increasingly drawn from intercultural creativity and located in multicultural milieu. This book Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions brings together a collection of essays devoted to this topic in the context of modernity and globalization. A wide range of performing arts, including the theatre, dance and music, of the Asian diasporas and diverse intercultural performance practice across the world is examined by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, anthropology, cultural studies, dance ethnology, ethnomusicology and musicology. The aim of this volume is to investigate the various artistic processes that take place in the transnational and intercultural sphere of modernity around the following general themes and objectives:
• The location of the performing arts in late modernity as a discursive field in which the boundary between ‘tradition and translation’ and ‘authenticity and hybridity’ are continually negotiated and redefined to create a multitude of meanings and aesthetics in global and local contexts.
