Twins separated at birth? West African vernacular and western avant garde performativity in theory and practice
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12370169 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Cynthia Ward (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1994 |
| Volumen | 14 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 269-288 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1994-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462939409366090 |
| OpenAlex | W1971884819 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 7 |
Though often described similarly in terms of their emphasis on dynamism, immediacy, diachronicity, and performativity, African and postmodern avant garde artistic practices are theorized as opposites in terms of their cultural positions and functions: one is considered traditional, the other anti‐traditional. By comparing the ideological status, the social function of the object, and performance‐audience relations in these two different cultural matrices, a vernacular function can be distinguished that emphasizes the social uses to which an object is put over any transcendent or inherent significance the object may be perceived to possess. Though for historic reasons these vernacular dynamics are dominant in West African popular/traditional idioms such as the Togolese concert party, they can be seen to be operative in North American popular/postmodern culture as well
Aesthetics · Art · Dynamism · Epistemology · Ideology · Immediacy · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Vernacular · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |