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Rojas, Monica M.

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Docile devils: Performing activism through Afro-Peruvian dance.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Docile devils: Performing activism through Afro-Peruvian dance./
Author:	Rojas, Monica M.
Description:	311 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Shannon Dudley.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-02A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3252889

Docile devils: Performing activism through Afro-Peruvian dance.
Rojas, Monica M.

Docile devils: Performing activism through Afro-Peruvian dance. - 311 p.

Adviser: Shannon Dudley.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2007.

This dissertation on Afro-Peruvian dance responds to persistent negative stereotypes of Afro-Peruvians in the mass media and in the imagination of the larger Peruvian population, and to a recent proliferation of community level Afro-Peruvian organizations that seek change in the sociocultural, economic and political situation of Afro-Peruvians in general. These utilize performance in their efforts to reconstruct, retain, and promote certain values in contrast to, and in dialog with, state sponsored and mass media narratives. My research points to issues of representation while highlighting strategies, successes, and persistent problems among Afro-Peruvian institutions.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Docile devils: Performing activism through Afro-Peruvian dance.
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520 $a This dissertation on Afro-Peruvian dance responds to persistent negative stereotypes of Afro-Peruvians in the mass media and in the imagination of the larger Peruvian population, and to a recent proliferation of community level Afro-Peruvian organizations that seek change in the sociocultural, economic and political situation of Afro-Peruvians in general. These utilize performance in their efforts to reconstruct, retain, and promote certain values in contrast to, and in dialog with, state sponsored and mass media narratives. My research points to issues of representation while highlighting strategies, successes, and persistent problems among Afro-Peruvian institutions.
520 $a My discussion is crafted around a self-reflexive analysis that engages topics such as identity, nationalism, and subjectivity. I apply a post structuralist analysis of institutions to dance to understand and explain how the colonial and post-colonial performative contexts in which Afro-Peruvian music and dance traditions emerged were rendered as 'docile' within the frame of institutional discipline. Through this discipline docile bodies were encoded with cultural values that follow hegemonic ideals of what is proper or improper among this cultural subgroup. This disciplinary power becomes visible in Afro-Peruvian art as Afro-Peruvian artists and activist resist misrepresentations by resignifying symbols as part of their unique culture and tradition. Since the actions of individuals acting of their own will have been shaped by the same system they resist, in this process of resisting, these same artists and activists are suggesting a diffused form of power. While this seems to be a vicious cycle and a difficult trap to escape, it is important to highlight how artists and activists are the agents of their own art, lives, and history despite all the contradictions that arise from this analysis.
520 $a Employing these frames I use the Son de los Diablos (devils dance) to illustrate the different points I make. This dance is particularly helpful in that it has an intricate history of a chain of significations involving imposition, adoption, staging, revival and activism. In each stage, the Son de los Diablos has been shaped through disciplinary power while being constantly adopted and resignified to be used as a tool for empowerment, resistance and activism.
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