Kimberly Dacosta Holton

Performing Folklore (eBook, ePUB)

Ranchos Folcloricos from Lisbon to Newark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through the lens of expressive culture, Performing Folklore tracks Portugal's transition from fascism to democracy, and from imperial metropole to EEC member state. Kimberly DaCosta Holton examines the evolution and significance of ranchos folclóricos, groups of amateur musicians and dancers who perform turn-of-the-century popular tradition and have acted as cultural barometers of change throughout 20th-century Portugal. She investigates the role that these folklore groups played in the mid-twentieth-century dictatorship, how they fell out of official favor with the advent of democracy, and why they remain so popular in Portugal's post-authoritarian state, especially in emigrant and diasporic communities. Holton looks at music, dance, costume, repertoire, venue, and social interplay in both local and global contexts. She considers the importance of revivalist folklore in the construction and preservation of national identity in the face of globalization. This book embraces "invented tradition" as process rather than event, presenting an ethnography not only of folkloric revivalism but also of sweeping cultural transformation, promoted alternately by authoritarianism, democracy, emigration, and European unification.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253027733
• Artikelnr.: 47465243

Autorenporträt

Kimberly DaCosta Holton is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies at Rutgers University, Newark.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Choreographing the Spirit: Fascism, Folklorization, and Everyday
Resistance
2. Battling the Bonitinho: Revolution, Reform, and Ethnographic
Authenticity
3. From Intestines into Heart: The Performance of Cultural Kinship
4. Festival Hospitality: New Paradigms of Travel and Exchange
5. "We Will Not Be Jazzed Up!": Lisbon 94 and Ranchos' Festival Absence
6. Dancing along the In-between: Folklore Performance and Transmigration in
Newark, New Jersey
Conclusion
Appendix: Musical Notation of Select Modas from the Repertoire of the
Rancho Folclorico de Alenquer
Notes
Works Cited
Index