Xu Shi (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098114
- eISBN:
- 9789882206830
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098114.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This book challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a culturalist perspective in facilitating better intercultural exchange amidst accelerated processes of ...
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This book challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a culturalist perspective in facilitating better intercultural exchange amidst accelerated processes of globalization. It is the first engagement with discourses in non-mainstream cultures. Covering a wide range of issues in public, professional, media, and intercultural communication, the twelve essays tackle culturally pressing issues by aligning viewpoints from various geo-political contexts.Less
This book challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a culturalist perspective in facilitating better intercultural exchange amidst accelerated processes of globalization. It is the first engagement with discourses in non-mainstream cultures. Covering a wide range of issues in public, professional, media, and intercultural communication, the twelve essays tackle culturally pressing issues by aligning viewpoints from various geo-political contexts.
D. R. M. Irving
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195378269
- eISBN:
- 9780199864614
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195378269.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were linked to Latin America and Spain ...
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This book reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were linked to Latin America and Spain through transoceanic relationships of politics, religion, trade, and culture. Manila, founded in 1571, represented a vital locus of intercultural exchange and a significant conduit for the regional diffusion of Western music. Within Manila's ethnically diverse society, imported and local musics played a crucial role in the establishment of ecclesiastical hierarchies in the Philippines, and the advancement of Roman Catholic evangelization in surrounding territories. The metaphors of European counterpoint and enharmony are used to critique musical practices within the colonial milieu, where multiple styles and genres coexisted according to strict regulations enforced by state and ecclesiastical authorities. This study argues that the introduction and institutionalization of counterpoint acted as a powerful agent of colonialism throughout the Philippine Archipelago, and that contrapuntal structures were reflected in the social and cultural reorganization of Filipino communities under Spanish rule. Active indigenous appropriation of Spanish music and dance constituted a significant contribution to the process of hispanization. Sustained “enharmonic engagement” between Filipinos and Spaniards led to the synthesis of hybrid, syncretic genres and the emergence of performance styles that could contest and subvert hegemony. Manila's religious institutions resounded with sumptuous vocal and instrumental performances, while an annual calendar of festivities brought together many musical traditions of the native and immigrant populations in complex forms of artistic interaction and opposition.Less
This book reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were linked to Latin America and Spain through transoceanic relationships of politics, religion, trade, and culture. Manila, founded in 1571, represented a vital locus of intercultural exchange and a significant conduit for the regional diffusion of Western music. Within Manila's ethnically diverse society, imported and local musics played a crucial role in the establishment of ecclesiastical hierarchies in the Philippines, and the advancement of Roman Catholic evangelization in surrounding territories. The metaphors of European counterpoint and enharmony are used to critique musical practices within the colonial milieu, where multiple styles and genres coexisted according to strict regulations enforced by state and ecclesiastical authorities. This study argues that the introduction and institutionalization of counterpoint acted as a powerful agent of colonialism throughout the Philippine Archipelago, and that contrapuntal structures were reflected in the social and cultural reorganization of Filipino communities under Spanish rule. Active indigenous appropriation of Spanish music and dance constituted a significant contribution to the process of hispanization. Sustained “enharmonic engagement” between Filipinos and Spaniards led to the synthesis of hybrid, syncretic genres and the emergence of performance styles that could contest and subvert hegemony. Manila's religious institutions resounded with sumptuous vocal and instrumental performances, while an annual calendar of festivities brought together many musical traditions of the native and immigrant populations in complex forms of artistic interaction and opposition.
Elleke Boehmer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198744184
- eISBN:
- 9780191804076
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744184.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This book explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, ...
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This book explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and travel writing. The book’s four decade-based case studies, leading from 1870 and the opening of the Suez Canal to the first years of the Great War, investigate from several different textual and cultural angles the central place of India in the British metropolitan imagination at this relatively early stage for Indian migration and intercultural exchange. Focusing on a range of remarkable Indian ‘arrivants’—scholars, poets, religious seekers, and political activists, including Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore—this book examines the take-up in the metropolis of the influences and ideas that accompanied their transcontinental movement, including concepts of the west and of cultural decadence, of urban modernity, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. If, as is now widely accepted, vocabularies of inhabitation, education, citizenship, and the law were in many cases developed in colonial spaces like India, and imported into Britain through various imperial networks, then, the book suggests, the presence of Indian travellers needs to be seen as more central to Britain’s understanding of itself, both in historical terms and in relation to the present day. The book demonstrates how the colonial encounter and its literature, in all its ambivalence and complexity, inflected social relations throughout the empire, including at its heart, in Britain itself.Less
This book explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and travel writing. The book’s four decade-based case studies, leading from 1870 and the opening of the Suez Canal to the first years of the Great War, investigate from several different textual and cultural angles the central place of India in the British metropolitan imagination at this relatively early stage for Indian migration and intercultural exchange. Focusing on a range of remarkable Indian ‘arrivants’—scholars, poets, religious seekers, and political activists, including Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore—this book examines the take-up in the metropolis of the influences and ideas that accompanied their transcontinental movement, including concepts of the west and of cultural decadence, of urban modernity, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. If, as is now widely accepted, vocabularies of inhabitation, education, citizenship, and the law were in many cases developed in colonial spaces like India, and imported into Britain through various imperial networks, then, the book suggests, the presence of Indian travellers needs to be seen as more central to Britain’s understanding of itself, both in historical terms and in relation to the present day. The book demonstrates how the colonial encounter and its literature, in all its ambivalence and complexity, inflected social relations throughout the empire, including at its heart, in Britain itself.
Jack Tannous
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691179094
- eISBN:
- 9780691184166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691179094.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This concluding chapter argues that late Roman Syria was a place where linguistic frontiers did not translate into cultural boundaries. The Arab conquests of the seventh century did not change this; ...
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This concluding chapter argues that late Roman Syria was a place where linguistic frontiers did not translate into cultural boundaries. The Arab conquests of the seventh century did not change this; instead, the prestige their new scripture enjoyed added a third literary language, Arabic, to the mix of a region with an already rich history of intercultural exchange. Moreover, religious dynamics continued as they had for centuries—viewed against the background of post-Chalcedonian Christian–Christian interaction, the scope and nature of Christian–Muslim interaction looks very familiar. Ultimately, in trying to place the existence of the Middle East's population of simple Christians not just into this story, but at its center, this book has attempted to capture some of the excitement and interest of this process in a way that does justice to all of the people living there, not just a small subset of them.Less
This concluding chapter argues that late Roman Syria was a place where linguistic frontiers did not translate into cultural boundaries. The Arab conquests of the seventh century did not change this; instead, the prestige their new scripture enjoyed added a third literary language, Arabic, to the mix of a region with an already rich history of intercultural exchange. Moreover, religious dynamics continued as they had for centuries—viewed against the background of post-Chalcedonian Christian–Christian interaction, the scope and nature of Christian–Muslim interaction looks very familiar. Ultimately, in trying to place the existence of the Middle East's population of simple Christians not just into this story, but at its center, this book has attempted to capture some of the excitement and interest of this process in a way that does justice to all of the people living there, not just a small subset of them.
Elfriede Hermann (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833664
- eISBN:
- 9780824870355
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833664.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. It ...
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This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. It examines these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, the book takes a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, the book addresses ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders.Less
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. It examines these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, the book takes a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, the book addresses ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders.
Matt Garcia
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807826584
- eISBN:
- 9781469604442
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807898932_garcia
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, the author of this book explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the ...
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Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, the author of this book explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today. As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in eastern Los Angeles County expanded during the early twentieth century, the agricultural industry there developed along segregated lines, primarily between white landowners and Mexican and Asian laborers. Initially, these communities were sharply divided. But Los Angeles, unlike other agricultural regions, saw important opportunities for intercultural exchange develop around the arts and within multi-ethnic community groups. Whether fostered in such informal settings as dance halls and theaters or in such formal organizations as the Intercultural Council of Claremont or the Southern California Unity Leagues, these interethnic encounters formed the basis for political cooperation to address labor discrimination and solve problems of residential and educational segregation. Though intercultural collaborations were not always successful, the author argues that they constitute an important chapter not only in Southern California's social and cultural development but also in the larger history of American race relations.Less
Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, the author of this book explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today. As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in eastern Los Angeles County expanded during the early twentieth century, the agricultural industry there developed along segregated lines, primarily between white landowners and Mexican and Asian laborers. Initially, these communities were sharply divided. But Los Angeles, unlike other agricultural regions, saw important opportunities for intercultural exchange develop around the arts and within multi-ethnic community groups. Whether fostered in such informal settings as dance halls and theaters or in such formal organizations as the Intercultural Council of Claremont or the Southern California Unity Leagues, these interethnic encounters formed the basis for political cooperation to address labor discrimination and solve problems of residential and educational segregation. Though intercultural collaborations were not always successful, the author argues that they constitute an important chapter not only in Southern California's social and cultural development but also in the larger history of American race relations.
Victoria Rosner and Geraldine Pratt (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231154499
- eISBN:
- 9780231520843
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231154499.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, ...
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By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.Less
By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.
Mary Carney
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062815
- eISBN:
- 9780813051772
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062815.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Edith Wharton’s war literature reflects her attentiveness to the material culture of France and its powerful embodiment of intercultural exchange across centuries and cultures. In Wharton’s two major ...
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Edith Wharton’s war literature reflects her attentiveness to the material culture of France and its powerful embodiment of intercultural exchange across centuries and cultures. In Wharton’s two major World War I texts, her earliest essays in Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort (1915) and her final war novel, A Son at the Front (1923), material phenomena push the narrative toward a more nuanced view of warfare, one in which violence happens against a backdrop of transcultural objects created by “imagined communities” reaching back centuries. As an example of women’s warw literature, Wharton’s work illuminates the tragic consequences of mechanized violence of international warfare while also providing a heightened expression of the interrelatedness of cultures.Less
Edith Wharton’s war literature reflects her attentiveness to the material culture of France and its powerful embodiment of intercultural exchange across centuries and cultures. In Wharton’s two major World War I texts, her earliest essays in Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort (1915) and her final war novel, A Son at the Front (1923), material phenomena push the narrative toward a more nuanced view of warfare, one in which violence happens against a backdrop of transcultural objects created by “imagined communities” reaching back centuries. As an example of women’s warw literature, Wharton’s work illuminates the tragic consequences of mechanized violence of international warfare while also providing a heightened expression of the interrelatedness of cultures.
Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231154499
- eISBN:
- 9780231520843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231154499.003.0016
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This book is a collection of sixteen essays that explore the ways in which the global and the intimate, typically imagined as mutually exclusive spheres, are profoundly intertwined. It instantiates ...
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This book is a collection of sixteen essays that explore the ways in which the global and the intimate, typically imagined as mutually exclusive spheres, are profoundly intertwined. It instantiates feminism as the crucial third term between the global and the intimate, thus extending a longstanding feminist tradition of challenging gender-based oppositions by upending hierarchies of space and scale, while raising the possibility of allowing feminists to steer a somewhat different course through processes of globalization and relations of intimacy. It also highlights the patterns that recur when gender, sex, and the global imaginary combine, along with the global forces that undergird personal experience and exchange. Finally, it considers how national visions of the global, particularly those located in the global north, tend to exclude anything that does not align with assumptions of northern hegemony and centrality. By placing the global and the intimate into near relation, the book hopes to forge a distinctively feminist approach to pressing questions of transnational relations, economic development, global feminist mobilization, and intercultural exchange.Less
This book is a collection of sixteen essays that explore the ways in which the global and the intimate, typically imagined as mutually exclusive spheres, are profoundly intertwined. It instantiates feminism as the crucial third term between the global and the intimate, thus extending a longstanding feminist tradition of challenging gender-based oppositions by upending hierarchies of space and scale, while raising the possibility of allowing feminists to steer a somewhat different course through processes of globalization and relations of intimacy. It also highlights the patterns that recur when gender, sex, and the global imaginary combine, along with the global forces that undergird personal experience and exchange. Finally, it considers how national visions of the global, particularly those located in the global north, tend to exclude anything that does not align with assumptions of northern hegemony and centrality. By placing the global and the intimate into near relation, the book hopes to forge a distinctively feminist approach to pressing questions of transnational relations, economic development, global feminist mobilization, and intercultural exchange.
Clare Croft
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199958191
- eISBN:
- 9780190226329
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199958191.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, History, American
This book examines the American government’s harnessing of dance to export an idealized image of “America,” focusing on the early decades of the Cold War and of the twenty-first century, periods when ...
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This book examines the American government’s harnessing of dance to export an idealized image of “America,” focusing on the early decades of the Cold War and of the twenty-first century, periods when the State Department engaged in cultural diplomacy by sending American dance companies abroad to advance its foreign policy objectives. The companies who have traveled as American cultural ambassadors included the New York City Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, ODC/Dance, and the Trey McIntyre Project—all chosen after a layered approvals process in which they were deemed to be appropriately “American.” Narrating the story of the dance-in-diplomacy programs from the perspective of the dancers who traveled on tours through the Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Eastern European communist bloc, the book exposes on-the-ground tensions as well as possibilities for intercultural exchange as the dancers reconciled their “official” status as cultural ambassadors with their identities as artists. Revealing the shifts in America’s foreign-policy agenda that were often the catalysts for tour planning and execution, the book sets the tours against the backdrop of history, in particular the US-Soviet standoff, the Cold War’s most foundational policy frame; postcolonial movements in Africa and Asia; and the eventual “collaborative turn” in American cultural diplomacy, the hallmark of the twenty-first-century programs that focused on building international relationships rather than exporting American superiority.Less
This book examines the American government’s harnessing of dance to export an idealized image of “America,” focusing on the early decades of the Cold War and of the twenty-first century, periods when the State Department engaged in cultural diplomacy by sending American dance companies abroad to advance its foreign policy objectives. The companies who have traveled as American cultural ambassadors included the New York City Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, ODC/Dance, and the Trey McIntyre Project—all chosen after a layered approvals process in which they were deemed to be appropriately “American.” Narrating the story of the dance-in-diplomacy programs from the perspective of the dancers who traveled on tours through the Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Eastern European communist bloc, the book exposes on-the-ground tensions as well as possibilities for intercultural exchange as the dancers reconciled their “official” status as cultural ambassadors with their identities as artists. Revealing the shifts in America’s foreign-policy agenda that were often the catalysts for tour planning and execution, the book sets the tours against the backdrop of history, in particular the US-Soviet standoff, the Cold War’s most foundational policy frame; postcolonial movements in Africa and Asia; and the eventual “collaborative turn” in American cultural diplomacy, the hallmark of the twenty-first-century programs that focused on building international relationships rather than exporting American superiority.
Allan W. Austin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037047
- eISBN:
- 9780252094156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037047.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This concluding chapter covers the work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in the 1950s onward. Even as AFSC officials linked their efforts to the Quaker past and trusted Friendly ...
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This concluding chapter covers the work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in the 1950s onward. Even as AFSC officials linked their efforts to the Quaker past and trusted Friendly methods, its staff understood that their approach to race relations had evolved since the Service Committee's earliest forays into the field. Furthermore, AFSC leaders understood the need for additional innovation in the early 1950s, especially as the Cold War intensified. The chapter traces the AFSC's activities during this period, including their attempts at expansion—particularly in the South—via the Washington Project. The Washington Project exhibited an expanding range of interracial techniques that had been evolving since the 1920s, especially an emphasis on education and intercultural exchange and a broader critique of and approach to racial problems in American society. Though the Washington Project would conclude in late 1955, the chapter shows how the AFSC continued their interracial activism still further South.Less
This concluding chapter covers the work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in the 1950s onward. Even as AFSC officials linked their efforts to the Quaker past and trusted Friendly methods, its staff understood that their approach to race relations had evolved since the Service Committee's earliest forays into the field. Furthermore, AFSC leaders understood the need for additional innovation in the early 1950s, especially as the Cold War intensified. The chapter traces the AFSC's activities during this period, including their attempts at expansion—particularly in the South—via the Washington Project. The Washington Project exhibited an expanding range of interracial techniques that had been evolving since the 1920s, especially an emphasis on education and intercultural exchange and a broader critique of and approach to racial problems in American society. Though the Washington Project would conclude in late 1955, the chapter shows how the AFSC continued their interracial activism still further South.
Matthew Isaac Cohen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824855567
- eISBN:
- 9780824868710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824855567.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The constituent ethnic groups of nineteenth-century Indonesia shared arts – remaking them as what Raymond Williams called “culture in common.” European arts, including drama and music, promoted a ...
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The constituent ethnic groups of nineteenth-century Indonesia shared arts – remaking them as what Raymond Williams called “culture in common.” European arts, including drama and music, promoted a sense of European identity in the tropics and dispelled boredom. European music was also appropriated: brass bands were hybridized by musicians in Java while church harmonies integrated with folk song in Ambon. While European participation in Javanese performing arts was once déclassé, a nineteenth-century “renaissance” of arts in central Java’s Javanese courts emerged through intense exchange with both Chinese and Europeans. The provision of arts to fill the Mangkunegaran court’s capacious Grand Gazebo resulted in much artistic innovation-including new forms of gamelan, langendriya, and wayang wong, and the reputation of court arts soared. Chinese opera, once a ritual theater and status symbol, became a business with the banning of slavery and the establishment of the Chinese-owned public theaters starting in 1870.Less
The constituent ethnic groups of nineteenth-century Indonesia shared arts – remaking them as what Raymond Williams called “culture in common.” European arts, including drama and music, promoted a sense of European identity in the tropics and dispelled boredom. European music was also appropriated: brass bands were hybridized by musicians in Java while church harmonies integrated with folk song in Ambon. While European participation in Javanese performing arts was once déclassé, a nineteenth-century “renaissance” of arts in central Java’s Javanese courts emerged through intense exchange with both Chinese and Europeans. The provision of arts to fill the Mangkunegaran court’s capacious Grand Gazebo resulted in much artistic innovation-including new forms of gamelan, langendriya, and wayang wong, and the reputation of court arts soared. Chinese opera, once a ritual theater and status symbol, became a business with the banning of slavery and the establishment of the Chinese-owned public theaters starting in 1870.
