Mari Yoshihara: 2 books
Musicians from a Different Shore
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan...
Embracing the East
White Women and American Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2002
As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's...