TY - GEN AU - Thornbury,Barbara E. TI - The folk performing arts: traditional culture in contemporary Japan PY - 1997/// CY - Albany, NY PB - State University of New York Press KW - Japan KW - Asian KW - Northeast (Japan, Korea) KW - Performing arts KW - Electronic books N1 - Published by State University of New York Press, Albany; Printed in the United States of America; No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher; E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; 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; Production by Ruth Fisher; Marketing by Nancy Farrell UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb33304 ER -