Creation of an exportable culture
A cosmopolitan West Indian case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maica Gugolati (0000-0002-0211-5579, Institut des Mondes Africains, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247-262 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17528631.2018.1451597 |
| OpenAlex | W2792432209 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper describes a recent cultural plan debated by members of the West Indian diaspora in Canada which sought to promote carnival as a multicultural expression of pan-Caribbean identity at the Hong Kong New Year International Festival, China. It deconstructs a cultural plan which did not succeed in its realization. As the Canadian West Indian carnival has its stylistic origin in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago, this proposition combines three different geographical areas and the related diasporas’ displacements under the notion of a local and global cultural promotion. In the article, I discuss the modes of creation and enactment of a diasporic patrimony as a culture to be presented in answer to foreign expectations of spectacle. The analysis approaches diasporic Canadian reflections about displacement, marginalization, and matters of cultural belonging, alongside economic dependencies, reflections that aim to gain visibility and international recognition through the production of an ‘ethnic spectacle’
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural identity · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Sociology · Spectacle · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture
A polyethnic London carnival as a contested cultural performance
Culture, Society and the Media
Carnival
On Unthinking Eurocentrism
Stuart Hall
Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011
Signification, representation, ideology
Globalization and Trinidad Carnival
The Delicate Acts of “Colour Balancing”
Dancing to the beat of the diaspora
Sonic diaspora, vibrations, and rhythm
Cosmopolitanism
Littérature et exotisme, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle
Creative Clustering in Small Island States
Diasporas
Anthropology and Multiculturalism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |