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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"expressive culture"”.
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Ma Io Sono Brasiliano! An Ethnographic Study of the Ethnicity and the Vernacular Expressive Culture of the Italian Immigrants in the City of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Folk Dance; Music)
… of S ao Paulo, Brazil; and (2) to analyze the expressive culture used in the manifestation of their Italianita, the Italian ethnic identity. The basic methodology used was an ethnographic study carried on during the months of October of 1985 to February of 1986, consisting of interviews, …
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On Hajj Tourism: In Search of Piety and Identity in the New Order Indonesia
… a new configuration of life and into a dominant expressive culture such as through hajj-tourism."
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Choro and Music Revivalism in Rio De Janeiro, 1973--1995
… Its immediate effect was to fill a void in the expressive culture of sectors of the middle class, serving as a basis for reestablishing their Brazilian identity in a politically and socially turbulent period. As a musical movement, it reinvigorated choro as a musical style by attracting and …
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Trad Jazz: Pre-War Aurality in the Postmodern City
… and theories from the anthropology of sound and expressive culture, the author shows the dialogic relation between economic and cultural displacement by focusing on the how urban space is constituted through live performance. This approach expands on previous ethnographies of jazz communities by …
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"Construyendo Nuestro Pedacito De Patria": Space and Dis(place)ment in Puerto Rican Chicago
… and manifested within the community's expressive culture. </p><p>My topics of study include the 1966 Division Street Riots, the Young Lords Organization (YLO), Humboldt Park's Paseo Boricua and spoken-word poet David Hernández. Through these interventions and forms of expression, I …
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Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
… meaning and makes it a rich, unexamined site of expressive culture. It provides a unique domain to understand how musicians in Chennai represent the always-changing relations of India and the West through their discourse about music and musical sound.
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Music and entertainment in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: ideology and legacy
… ethnographic study of holiday celebrations and expressive culture in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China between 2004 and 2006, I attended state-sponsored celebrations as well as holiday events at religious establishments, children’s daycares and schools, and observed the social, familial watching …
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Singing knowledge: aesthetics, authority and gender in Skyrian music (Greece)
… Skyros prides itself on a distinctive expressive culture that prominently features the masquerading and satirical performances of the pre-Lenten Carnival, for which the island is well known beyond Greece, as well as the less famous a cappella “table songs” (traghoudhia tis tavlas) …
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Drums, Raps, and Song-Games: An Ethnography of Music and Peacebuilding in the Afro-Colombian Town of Libertad (Sucre)
Throughout the world, violent conflicts negatively impact economies, cultural practices, and the social relations within societies. Focusing on a case study of a cooperative national and community effort that highlights musical and traditional cultural practices, this dissertation explores programs …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… of female masculinity in traditional Chinese expressive culture, I study how gender authenticity and cultural authenticity, as discursive formations, carry political meaning. Under British rule in the twentieth century, Cantonese opera in Hong Kong did not shrink but thrived and later became a …
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Art in between Empires: Visual Culture and Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857
This dissertation focuses on the artistic culture of late Mughal Delhi spanning the last century of Mughal rule and the administration of the English East India Company in North India, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. It brings a hitherto unrecognized period of artistic …