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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Cultural Performances"”.
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In-between Music: The Musical Creation of Cholo Identity in Cochabamba, Bolivia
… Cholo-ness is made possible through mediated cultural performances of all types, in which members actively choose elements from both criollo and Indian cultures. Music is one particularly effective way in which cholos create and maintain their identity. This thesis focuses on the ways in which …
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Celebrations everywhere: How social movements enact emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production
… city’s local food system after decades of agricultural consolidation had reduced the availability of local food. Starting with feasts in 2004 that drew attention to the issue, movement members began making active use of events to attract external audiences to local food initiatives. After 2007, …
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"""Been there, did that"": Contemporary sport performances"
… Olympics in Barcelona, Spain are examined as cultural performances in this dissertation. Participant-observation was used, and ethnographies for each temporal site were produced. Sport-art relationships, especially drawing upon postmodern discourse, are examined. Additionally, a proposal for a …
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Ethnicity in Festival Landscapes: An Analysis of the Landscape of Jaialdi '95 as a Spatial Expression of Basque Ethnicity
… are transformed into "festival space" and the cultural landscapes within the boundaries of the festivals are transfigured into festival landscapes. The landscapes of ethnic festivals generate, via a colorful assortment of cultural performances and symbols, metaphors of ethnicity and spatial …
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Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
… western dramatic theatre, indigenous theatre and cultural performances. This contact results in the formation of a third space for theatre which is a creative area of ambivalence, sameness, difference, conflict, struggle, mocking and celebration. The study specifically scrutinises this …
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"Washington in Golry": Clerical Reflections on the Death of George Washington and the Making of a New Nation
… of 1800. These orations can be viewed as cultural performances that helped to strengthen the social and political order by fostering a sense of community that transcended local boundaries, bringing an entire nation together to mourn their fallen leader. By ruminating on a number of …
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BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW: GERMAN-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL CANNIBALISM
Cultural cannibalism is an aesthetic practice and an analytical tool that can be used to look closely at (trans)cultural encounters that happen in the arts. From its modernist roots, the term inherited a bold spirit, a playful self-assertion in the face of the other, a refusal to submit to the …
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The Effects of Parental Practices on Adolescent Sexual Initiation Prior to Age 16
… children whose mothers took them to cultural performances were more likely to have had sex before age 16. This level of analysis suggests that early background characteristics may be more important than parental practices in predicting early sexual initiation. This dissertation …
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Performing the new public school: embodied narratives in a Chicago charter school
… school in Chicago, the charter school, within a cultural imperative for global competence by local government, private-public interventions to stage school reform, and marginalized communities’ participations to achieve educational equality. These new educative spaces, found mostly in …
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Socioeconomic Status and Youth Participation in Extracurricular Arts Activities
… of, investment in, and mobilization of certain cultural resources are significant predictors of children's advantageous social development in both institutional settings and interpersonal relationships. Several theories and empirical analyses illustrate the importance of children's leisure-time …
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Little world/mundinho: an 'antropofagic' and autobiographic performance (uma performance antropofagica e autobiografica)
… my 'self'? Can the performing body transcend cultural boundaries? What would such transcendence look like? If it happens, what can it say about a possible intercultural body format? How to create a performance with an extracultural approach? Invasion, migration, and population dislocation over …
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In Search of Mother: The Libratory Effects of Performance Pedagogy in the Mothering Practices of Black Women
… mining the history of Black women within Western cultural and political economy. I find Mother in the Africana female artists who use their cultural work to nurture, sustain and develop their communities and enhance human potential. I imagine an indigenous feminist performance methodology that I …
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Dancing the feminine : performances by indonesian migrant women
… firstly to gain recognition as professional cultural performers rather than being seen only as members of an amateur, housewife hobby dance group and secondly to elevate their status beyond that of marriage migrant, specifically within the local Indonesian community. Each chapter is based on …
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Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan
… the performing arts represented a way of culturally reuniting Okinawa with Japan. Reversion discourses often encouraged the rewriting of historical narratives and the redefining of post-imperial Japanese culture as inclusive of Okinawan ethnic difference. I examine how post-Reversion …