Author: Bendix, Regina

Source: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Volume 17, Number 2, Autumn 2008 , pp. 114-129(16)

Abstract:

Drawing examples from ethnic and popular music as well as from folk art, the paper explores the multivalence of expressive forms as local and European, even global aesthetic resources, whose territorial or ethno-national connection is - due to the power of aesthetic affect - but one among many possibilities of identification. It is argued first that the resource dimension of cultural expression has been furthered by the documentation and classification techniques of ethnological and folkloristic knowledge production, which in turn also facilitated circulation in multiple context. Second, the paper encourages that scholarship expand from recognising a political identification and instrumentalisation of aesthetic resources to understanding the economic appropriation of the production and consumption of such resources.

Keywords: CULTURAL RESOURCES; EXPERIENCE; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; MUSIC CONSUMPTION

DOI: 10.3167/ajec.2008.170208

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