And the Soul Shall Dance (play) (1978)
Title
And the Soul Shall Dance (play) (1978)
Subject
Japanese Americans
Families--Drama
URL
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Soul_Shall_Dance):
And The Soul Shall Dance is Wakako Yamauchi's first full-length play. Written in 1977, the story involves a young Japanese American girl and her parents as they struggle to live in a white America during The Great Depression. And The Soul Shall Dance grapples with many of the issues facing Japanese Americans in America such as assimilation, immigration, social, economic and political status, and simply surviving in the cruelties of the "California Dream" era.
Ephemera: none available
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And The Soul Shall Dance is Wakako Yamauchi's first full-length play. Written in 1977, the story involves a young Japanese American girl and her parents as they struggle to live in a white America during The Great Depression. And The Soul Shall Dance grapples with many of the issues facing Japanese Americans in America such as assimilation, immigration, social, economic and political status, and simply surviving in the cruelties of the "California Dream" era.
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Wakako Yamauchi (writer)
Norman Lloyd (executive producer)
David Livingston (associate producer)
Paul Stanley (director)
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Date
1978 February 7
Citation
“And the Soul Shall Dance (play) (1978),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed May 12, 2025, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/614.