Violin Performance Practice and Ethnicity in Saraguro, Ecuador
Volinsky, Nan Leigh
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Description
Title
Violin Performance Practice and Ethnicity in Saraguro, Ecuador
Author(s)
Volinsky, Nan Leigh
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Whitten, Norman E., Jr.
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
Compounding this differentiation are the college-educated Saraguro youths who, unlike older generations, are well-versed in a nation-wide discourse of ethnic legitimacy and cultural politics. Given the diversification of Saraguro society in terms of the degree of one's formal education and participation in a discourse of ethnic legitimacy and renewal, older and younger Saraguros understand and express their ethnicity in correspondingly different ways. I investigate the diversification of performance practice among Saraguro violinists to analyze this phenomenon. To point to the differentiation of ethnic consciousness, I focus on the import of the contrast between older Saraguros who play the violin while sitting, and the younger ones who play standing up.
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