Performing Identity Performing Culture

Author : Greg Dimitriadis,Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African American youth
ISBN : 1433105381

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Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice is the first book-length ethnography of young people and their uses of hip hop culture. Originally published in 2001, this second edition is newly revised, expanded, and updated to reflect contemporary currents in hip hop culture and critical scholarship, as well as the epochal social, cultural, and economic shifts of the last decade. Drawing together historical work on hip hop and rap music as well as four years of research at a local community center, Greg Dimitriadis argues here that contemporary youth are fashioning notions of self and community outside of school in ways educators have largely ignored. His studies are broad-ranging: how two teenagers constructed notions of a Southern tradition through their use of Southern rap artists like Eightball & MJG and Three 6 Mafia; how young people constructed notions of history through viewing the film Panther, a film they connected to hip hop culture more broadly; and how young people dealt with the life and death of hip hop icon Tupac Shakur, constructing resurrection myths that still resonate and circulate today.

Author : Greg Dimitriadis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1035665267

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Author : Greg Dimitriadis
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015053107523

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This ethnography studies young people and their use of hip hop culture. Drawing from historical work on hip hop and rap music, as well as four years of research at a local community center, the author argues that contemporary youth are increasingly fashioning notions of self and community outside of school in ways that educators have largely ignored. Attention is given to the influence of artists like the Sugarhill Gang, Run DMC, Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy, NWA, and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Author : Elizabeth C. Fine,Jean Haskell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313067600

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Performance, Culture, and Identity by Elizabeth C. Fine,Jean Haskell Pdf

This volume is based on the premise that artistic performance is epistemological, a way of knowing self, culture, and other. The nine essays in this book, based on a broad range of ethnic, racial, and gender groups, share a common interest in exploring how performance reveals, shapes, and sometimes transforms personal and cultural identity. Editors Fine and Speer begin by examining the interdisciplinary roots of performance studies and the role of performance studies in the field of communication. They also discuss the power of performance to shape personal and cultural identity. The first two chapters explore the ritual nature of performance in two different cultural contexts: an African-American church service and an Appalachian storytelling event of the legendary Ray Hicks. In both arenas, the performers act as shamans, transporting the audience from their everyday, secular lives to the higher ground of the mythic spheres of heroic and fantastic events. The next three chapters discuss the notion of place and performance in various landscapes--the English countryside, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the farmland of the Midwest. Through analysis of the speech and songs of a modern Sussex yeoman, the ghost tales of Appalachian storytellers, and the narratives of Midwest farmers coping with hard times, the authors reveal a variety of ways in which narrative performances function to preserve people's relationship with the land. The last four chapters share a focus on women as storytellers. One chapter offers a feminist critique of personal narrative research and challenges normative assumptions about the storytelling behavior of women. Another chapter interprets a narration of a Galician woman's typical day to reveal how the performance expresses deeply held attitudes and beliefs of her cultural community. Words are not the only medium that women use to tell their stories. The next chapter examines the story cloths of Hmong women refugees from Laos as intercultural and dialogical performances. The last chapter explores self-discovery and identity in the storytelling of a woman in the last years of her life. This volume is particularly representative of the ways in which communication scholars approach performance studies, but will also interest researchers and students of folklore, anthropology, sociology, theatre, and related disciplines.

Author : Amanda Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135010324

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Performing Asian Transnationalisms by Amanda Rogers Pdf

This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses the cross-border relationships that exist within and between Asian American, British East Asian, and South East Asian theatres, investigating the effect of transnationalism on the construction of identity, the development of creative praxis, and the reception of works in different social fields. This book therefore examines how practitioners engage with one another across borders, and details the cross-cultural performances, creative opportunities, and political alliances that result. By viewing ethnic minority theatres as part of global — rather than simply national — cultural fields, Rogers argues that transnational relationships take multiple forms and have varying impetuses that cannot always be equated to diasporic longing for a homeland or as strategically motivated for economic gain. This argument is developed through a series of chapters that examine how different transnational spatialities are produced and re-worked through the practice of theatre making, drawing upon an analysis of rehearsals, performances, festivals, and semi-structured interviews with practitioners. The book extends existing discussions of performance and globalization, particularly through its focus on the multiplicity of transnational spatiality and the networks between English-language Asian theatres. Its analysis of spatially extensive relations also contributes to an emerging body of research on creative geographies by situating theatrical praxis in relation to cross-border flows. Performing Asian Transnationalisms demonstrates how performances reflect and rework conventional transnational geographies in imaginative and innovative ways.

Author : Yuliya Ilchuk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487508258

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Nikolai Gogol by Yuliya Ilchuk Pdf

This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a deliberate hybrid identity to mimic and mock the pretensions of the dominant culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401205238

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Performing National Identity by Anonim Pdf

National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances—ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to ‘cultural performances’ such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media—that cultural identity and a sense of nationhood are fashioned. National identity is not an essence one is born with but something acquired in and through performances. Particularly important here are intercultural performances and transactions, and that not only in a colonial and postcolonial dimension, where such performative aspects have already been considered, but also in inner-European transactions. ‘Englishness’ or ‘Britishness’ and Italianità, the subject of this anthology, are staged both within each culture and, more importantly, in joint performances of difference across cultural borders. Performing difference highlights differences that ‘make a difference’; it ‘draws a line’ between self and other—boundary lines that are, however, constantly being redrawn and renegotiated, and remain instable and shifting.

Author : Arnout van der Meer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501758591

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Performing Power by Arnout van der Meer Pdf

Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the colonizer and colonized. Arnout Van der Meer's Performing Power explores what seemingly ordinary interactions reveal about the construction of national, racial, social, religious, and gender identities as well as the experience of modernity in colonial Indonesia. Through acts of everyday resistance, such as speaking a different language, withholding deference, and changing one's appearance and consumer behavior, a new generation of Indonesians contested the hegemonic colonial appropriation of local culture and the racial and gender inequalities that it sustained. Over time these relationships of domination and subordination became inverted, and by the twentieth century the Javanese used the tropes of Dutch colonial behavior to subvert the administrative hierarchy of the state. Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

Author : Clare Bielby,Jeffrey Stevenson Murer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319967851

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Perpetrating Selves by Clare Bielby,Jeffrey Stevenson Murer Pdf

This volume explores violent perpetration in diverse forms from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. From National Socialist perpetration in the museum, through post-terrorist life writing to embodied performances of perpetration in cosplay, the collection draws upon a series of historical and geographical case studies, seen through the lens of a variety of texts, with a particular focus on the locus of the museum as a technology of sense making. In addition to its authored chapters, the volume includes three contributed interviews which offer a practice-led perspective on the topic. Through its wide-ranging approach to violence, the volume draws attention to the contested and gendered nature of what is constructed as ‘perpetration’. With a focus on perpetrator subjectivity or the ‘perpetrator self’, it proposes that we approach perpetration as a form of ‘doing’; and a ‘doing’ that is bound up with the ‘doing’ of one’s gendered identity more broadly. The work will be of great interest to students and scholars working on violence and perpetration in the fields of History, Literary Studies, Area Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Museum Studies, Cultural Studies, International Relations and Political Science.

Author : Dieuwke Van Der Poel,Louis P. Grijp,Wim van Anrooij
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004314986

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Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture by Dieuwke Van Der Poel,Louis P. Grijp,Wim van Anrooij Pdf

Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture for the first time explores comparatively the dynamic process of group formation through the production and appropriation of songs in various European countries and regions.

Author : Bryant Keith Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759114180

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Performing Black Masculinity by Bryant Keith Alexander Pdf

This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.

Author : Fintan Walsh,Matthew Causey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136154850

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Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject by Fintan Walsh,Matthew Causey Pdf

This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with others that are not limited by conventional identitarian languages. The essays engage contemporary theatre and performance practices that pose challenging questions about identity, as well as subjectivity, relationality, and the politics of aesthetics, responding to neo-liberal constructions and exploitations of identity by seeking to discern, describe, or imagine a new political subject. Chapters by leading international scholars look to visual arts practice, digital culture, music, public events, experimental theatre, and performance to investigate questions about representation, metaphysics, and politics. The collections seeks to foreground shared, universalist connections that unite rather than divide, visiting metaphysical questions of being and becoming, and the possibilities of producing alternate realities and relationalities. The book asks what is at stake in thinking about a subject, a time, a place, and a performing arts practice that would come ‘after’ identity, and explores how theatre and performance pose and interrogate these questions.

Author : Rebecca S. Miller
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0819568589

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Carriacou String Band Serenade by Rebecca S. Miller Pdf

A Caribbean music festival as a window on social change

Author : D. Soyini Madison,Judith Hamera
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0761929312

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The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies by D. Soyini Madison,Judith Hamera Pdf

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Author : Sam Seidel,Tony Simmons,Michael Lipset
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475864311

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Hip-Hop Genius 2.0 by Sam Seidel,Tony Simmons,Michael Lipset Pdf

"Through stories about the professional rapper who founded the first hip-hop school and the aspiring artists currently enrolled there, Hip Hop Genius delivers a vision for how hip-hop's genius can lead to a fundamental remix of the way we think of teaching, school design, and leadership"--