Creating Our Own Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru

Name: Creating Our Own Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
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ISBN: 9780822341529

ISBN-10: 0822341522

ISBN-13: 9780822341529

Edition: 2008

Authors: Zoila S. Mendoza

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In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the "folkloric arts"-particularly music, dance, and drama-in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza argues that the folkloric productions that emerged in Cuzco in the early twentieth century were integral to, rather than only a reflection of, the social and political processes that led to the development of the indigenismo movement. By demonstrating how Cuzco's folklore emerged from complex interactions between artists and intellectuals of different social classes, she challenges ideas of indigenismo as…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface to the English Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Revisiting Indigenismo and Folklore



The Mision Peruana de Arte Incaico and the Development of Artistic-Folkloric Production in Cuzco



The Rise of Cultural Institutions and Contests



Touristic Cuzco, Its Monuments, and Its Folklore



La Hora del Charango: The Cholo Feeling, Cuzquenoness, and Peruvianness



Creative Effervescence and the Consolidation of Spaces for "Folklore"


Epilogue: Who Will Represent What Is Our Own? Some Paradoxes of Andean Folklore Both Inside and Outside Peru


Notes


Discography


Bibliography


Index