Quotidian creolization and diasporic echoes: resistance and co-optation in Cape Verde and Louisiana
Sheringham, Olivia and Cohen, R. (2013) Quotidian creolization and diasporic echoes: resistance and co-optation in Cape Verde and Louisiana. Working Paper. International Migration Institute.
Abstract
Expressions of popular culture (here we consider music and carnival) have often been analysed as manifestations of indirect resistance to oppression. Alternatively, they can be seen as displays and practices that dominant political and social elites can easily co-opt. Using a combination of published material and fieldwork observations in Cape Verde and Louisiana, we show how a complex interplay between resistance and co-optation arises. As prior or incoming cultures are creolized they become nationalized, officialized or commercialized, thereby becoming subject to mechanisms of ‘destructive tolerance’. However, processes of appropriation are continuously challenged by internal dissent, demands for authenticity and fresh creative inputs. Such inputs are frequently drawn from original (or imagined original) societies and emergent diasporic practices and identities, which we have deemed ‘diasporic echoes’.
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| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Creolization, diaspora, resistance, co-optation, music, carnival |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2020 13:12 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:06 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41902 |
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