Violin Performance Practice and Ethnicity in Saraguro, Ecuador

Compounding this differentiation are the college-educated Saraguro youths who, unlike older generations, are well-versed in a nation-wide discourse of ethnic legitimacy and cultural politics. Given the diversification of Saraguro society in terms of the degree of one's formal education and participation in a discourse of ethnic legitimacy and renewal, older and younger Saraguros understand and express their ethnicity in correspondingly different ways. I investigate the diversification of performance practice among Saraguro violinists to analyze this phenomenon. To point to the differentiation of ethnic consciousness, I focus on the import of the contrast between older Saraguros who play the violin while sitting, and the younger ones who play standing up.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Volinsky, Nan Leigh

Contributors dc:contributor

• Whitten, Norman E., Jr.

• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912413

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85321