Creating our own : folklore, performance, and identity in Cuzco, Peru / Zoila S. Mendoza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendoza, Zoila S., 1960-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Peru--Cuzco.

Folklore.

Folklore--Performance--Peru--Cuzco.

Ethnicity--Peru--Cuzco.

Ethnicity.

National characteristics, Peruvian.

Nationalism--Peru--Cuzco.

Nationalism.

Cuzco (Peru)--Social life and customs.

Cuzco (Peru).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

[English ed.].

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Analyzes the key role that the production of "folkloric" music, dance, and drama has had in the formation of ethnic/racial identities, regionalism, and nationalism in Cuzco, Peru during the twentieth century.

Contents:

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:

"This text was originally conceived, written, and published in Spanish"--P. [xi]

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221-228]) and index.

Includes discography: p. [219].

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822388852

0822388855

OCLC:

191855685