Working Culture: Making Cultural Identities in Cali, Colombia [and Comments and Reply]

Wade,; Baud,; Escobar, G.; Rahier,; Sansone, Carlo; Uribe,; Giraldo,; Weil,

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“…This ability for a global consumer culture to be taken up by local actors is related to a strong preference within hip hop for a sense of authenticity, as expressed in the constantly repeated emphasis in lyrics of 'the real' 6 (Wade, 1999;Tickner, 2008). As Tickner argues, the 'real' grounds political expression in the experiences and practices of everyday life, accentuating rather than subsuming local experiences within a global community.…”

Section: Cosmopolitanism and Imagined Community/iesmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…d 6 dOr their Spanish counterpart, lo real (Tickner, 2008). d 7 dThis is not to deny the influence or importance of pan-African sentiment, particularly within recent Afro-Latin social and political movements (Johnson III 2007;Wade 1997). d 8 d'la influencia de la cultura global negra va más allá de cualquier noción esencializada de una 'comunidad' articulada bajo conceptos étnicos exclusivamente' -my translation.…”

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Cosmopolitanism Sits in Places: Consumption and Cosmopolitics in Latin America

Thompson¹

2012

International Review of Social Research

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Renewed interest in cosmopolitanism has spread across the humanities and social sciences in recent decades. However, this growth has also carried many of the values underpinning cosmopolitanism as a Kantian ideal, including a denigration of consumption and material relations in favour of a putatively social core. In this article, however, I argue that cosmopolitanism is lived through the relations and politics of materiality and consumerism. Through an investigation of ethnographies of urban poverty in Latin America, cosmopolitanism emerges as a diverse, locally instantiated ideology and identity which diverges from many of the debates circulating in sites of academia. With an emphasis on marginalised communities, I reconsider cosmopolitanism as a series of material identities and relationships that develop within the context of economic and social inequality in both local and global scales.

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Section: Cosmopolitanism and Imagined Community/iesmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Cosmopolitanism Sits in Places: Consumption and Cosmopolitics in Latin America

Thompson¹

2012

International Review of Social Research

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“…This study builds on the idea that product meanings, as is culture, are generated in contexts and as a result of consumers' engagement with their surroundings (Wade 1999). To this end, I conducted a one-year multisite ethnography in a large Midwestern city to map interconnections among personal aspects of the consumer experience (Caldarola 1994), following the connections, associations, and relationships among paths, conjunctions, or juxtaposed locations (Marcus 1995).…”

Section: Consumption Object and Research Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer creations of product meaning in the context of African-style clothing

DeBerry‐Spence

2007

J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci.

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In this article, the author conducts a multisite ethnography to examine how US consumers construct product meanings and assign them to African clothing worn in different consumption settings. Contextual product meanings both emphasize the changing role of the consumption setting and reveal the consumer's use of place. A model emerges from the data to show that consumers establish contextual product meanings through the use of interpretive frameworks, or meaning domains, and that the consumption setting influences this process by affecting consumers' use of meaning domains and their selection of potential influences on that meaning.

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“…Em certo sentido, a lógica da nova constituição multicultural e a criação de entidades como a División de Negritudes, de Cáli, consiste em que os negros e, a rigor, todas as pessoas têm uma "cultura". Não obstante, o governo municipal também quis poder avaliar se uma "cultura" era digna de ser considerada como tal para fins de financiamento e apoio (Wade, 1999).…”

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Compreendendo a "África" e a "negritude" na Colômbia: a música e a política da cultura

Wade¹

2003

Estud. afro-asiát.

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ResumoNeste artigo, o autor analisa o caso dos estilos musicais associados ao "negro", persistentemente vistos pelas pessoas não negras como "primitivos", mas, ao mesmo tempo, "excitantes". Por isso, o conteúdo principal do artigo é a análise dos termos "África" e "negritude" através da música popular colombiana das décadas de 1920 a 1950, em particular a música da costa caribenha, porém vendo esses termos em relação à ideologia da mestiçagem. Descreve o fenômeno da nacionalização de formas musicais populares (cumbia e porro) durante esse período, formas estas que, ao final dele, converteram-se na música de representação nacional. Aborda, no caso da cidade de Cáli, a presença de grupos de jovens negros que se identificam com a cultura negra. Alguns desses grupos têm ligações com circuitos acadêmicos e resultam de processos liderados por agentes externos. Para esses grupos, a referência à África tem um peso simbólico muito grande. Por isso, é essencial para o autor mostrar o papel dos contextos sócio-históricos urbanos e rurais naqueles que se reinventam e que recriam os termos "negritude" e "África".Palavras-chave: contextos históricos, processos de construção cultural, embranquecimento, negritude, "primitivo", música popular, mestiça-gem, nacionalização de culturas musicais, modernidade, encarnação/corporificação, cultura negra.Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, Ano 25, n o 1, 2003, pp. 145-178 Abstract Understanding Africa and negritude in Colombia: music and politics of cultureThe notions of "negritude" and, at minor grade, "Africa", have had a cultural and political importance during the Colombian history since the XIX century. These terms and their different lexical variations have changed historically, according to several social factors, where play the racial, social class and gender hierarchies. In this article the autor does an analysis of the musical styles associated to "negro people", constantly seen by non-black people as "primitive" but, at the same time, as "exciting". Therefore, the main content of this article is the analysis of the terms "Africa" and "negritude" through Colombian popular music between the decades of 1920s to 1950s, in particular the music from the Caribbean Coast, although these terms are studied in relation to the mestizo cross-bred ideology. It describes the phenomenon of nationalization of popular music styles (cumbia and porro) during this time when they became music of national representation. The article talks about, in the case of the city of Cali, the presence of groups composed by young black people that identify with the black culture. Some of these groups have connections with academic groups and result from processes led by exterior agents. To these groups, the reference to Africa is a very important symbol. So, it is essential to the author to show the role of the urban and rural social -historical contexts of those people that reinvented and recreated the terms "negritude" and "Africa".Keywords: historical contexts, cultural construction processes, whitening process, negritu...

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Working Culture: Making Cultural Identities in Cali, Colombia [and Comments and Reply]

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

Cosmopolitanism Sits in Places: Consumption and Cosmopolitics in Latin America

Cosmopolitanism Sits in Places: Consumption and Cosmopolitics in Latin America

Consumer creations of product meaning in the context of African-style clothing

Compreendendo a "África" e a "negritude" na Colômbia: a música e a política da cultura

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