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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview -- A History of Scholarship in the Folk Performing Arts -- The Cultural Properties Protection Law -- The Festival Law -- The Folk Performing Arts on Center Stage -- Communities and Their Folk Performing Arts Today -- A Model for a National Folk Performing Arts Theater: The Saitama Prefectural Folk Culture Center -- The Folk Performing Arts in Literature -- Toward the Future.

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