Doing Culture Work: Negotiating Tradition and Authenticity in Filipino Folk Dance

Gilmore, Samuel (2000) Doing Culture Work: Negotiating Tradition and Authenticity in Filipino Folk Dance. Sociological Perspectives, 43 (4). S21-S41. ISSN 07311214 (print); 15338673 (online)

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Abstract

This article uses ethnographic interviews to examine the production of Filipino traditional dance in three separate settings in the Filipino American community: community associations, student ethnic identity organizations, and professional dance companies. Participants in each setting have used tradition making to pursue different cultural purposes: "nostalgia" in community associations; the celebration of "cultural identity" in student ethnic organizations; and a technically distinct "cultural representation" among professional dance companies. At issue is the social construction of authenticity and the negotiation of appropriate cultural resources to reproduce the past in the present, that is, a "living tradition" in each cultural context. Anselm Strauss's (1963, 1978) concept of the negotiated order is used to analyze the static and dynamic qualities of tradition making and to better understand the social construction of "local authenticity" in each setting.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: dance, dance criticism, folk dance
Depositing User: Repo Admin
Date Deposited: 22 Apr 2017 13:23
Last Modified: 22 Apr 2017 13:23
URI: http://philippineperformance-repository.upd.edu.ph/id/eprint/348

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