scholarly journals Banyuwangi Angklung Caruk Festival: Aesthetic Reconstruction in Cultural Commodification Practice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karsono ◽  
Totok Sumaryanto Florentinus ◽  
Tjetjep Rohendi Rohidi ◽  
Wadiyo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Commodification

Comedy, Class, and Nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Tew
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Adequate Account ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Cultural Commodification ◽  
Comic Novel ◽  
Post War ◽  
Recurrent Motifs

This chapter studies the comic novel. If British and Irish culture in the post-war decades underwent some radical social and political upheavals, the novel registered and critiqued these transformations in part through the development of a particular comic mode. Comedy in British and Irish novels published from 1940 to 1973 often turned around the difficult intersection of class and nation. Alongside this overarching attention to class and nation, a number of other recurrent motifs can be traced in the comic novel of the period, such as the representation of cultural commodification, the decline of traditional values, and the emergence of new forms of youth culture. In the context of such widespread changes to the narratives that shaped public life, the comic novel expressed an ironic scepticism concerning the capacity of any cultural narrative to offer an adequate account of contemporary identities.

scholarly journals Appropriateness and appropriation: examining Modernist couture connections to Edwardian lingerie and boudoir clothing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K. Zygowski
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Practitioner Research ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Design Exploration ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Cultural Commodification ◽  
Cultural Requirements ◽  
Material Artifacts ◽  
Research Show

This research explores material artifacts of Edwardian lingerie and Modernist couture through their cultural and material connections. Material culture theories of communication and production were used to examine garment artifacts from both Eras, while a conceptual framework provided a space to develop material outcomes and knowledge based upon research. Key findings from the research show that the cultural commodification of the female body, increased female agency and the fragmentation of social structures resulted in the development of specialized garments uniquely suited to the cultural requirements of the Modernist Era. Cultural producers continually adapted design practices and transformed dress signifiers of value in a cycle of appropriation and transformation. In addition, the appropriation of labour intensive Edwardian Era Lingerie techniques by Modernist couture houses supported the development of exclusive commodities whose design process was key to preventing devaluation through counterfeiting. Ultimately, a collection of garments resulted from a design exploration of these techniques, using action and practitioner research.

Bottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in “Afro Lisboa”: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugal

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-351
Author(s):  
Carlos Garrido Castellano ◽  
Otávio Raposo
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Positive Identification ◽  
Cultural Commodification ◽  
Portuguese Society

This article analyzes recent audio-visual creativity by young Afrodescendants emerging out of the outskirts of Lisbon. We argue that those cultural productions are challenging unproblematic identifications of the Portuguese capital as a multicultural city shaped by African communities. Responding to issues of racism, police violence, and urban marginalization, but also to celebratory views of Portuguese society as exempt of racial discrimination, the communities inhabiting the neighborhoods of Cova da Moura and Quinta do Mocho are employing creative means to develop a positive identification of afro-diasporic communities. Engaging those means, this article places bottom-up creativity side by side to the activity of Lisbon cultural institutions such as museums and contemporary art centers. It also addresses the relevance of visual and musical creativity to counter the stereotypes and images frequently used to categorize racialized subjects and communities in Portugal. Finally, it explores the strategies employed by the residents of the above mentioned neighborhoods to struggle against the process of cultural gentrification Lisbon is going through.

Branded fitness: Exercise and promotional culture

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon Powers ◽  
DM Greenwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Commodification ◽  
Insight Into

This article develops a theory of branded fitness within the United States through a focus on two of its most visible examples: CrossFit and Bikram yoga. We argue that highly successful forms of branded fitness such as these give insight into the enormous power and permeation of branded sensibilities into everyday life – in this case, going so far as to inform how we relate to, and attempt to modify, our own bodies. However, we argue that a close examination of branded fitness likewise reveals the inconsistencies, trouble spots, and extraordinary limits of the brand as a way to build a fitness movement – which we contend is instructive in thinking about how branding more generally relates to mediation, community, and cultural commodification.

Coffee and Mayan Cultural Commodification in Guatemala

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Steinberg ◽  
Matthew J. Taylor ◽  
Michelle Moran‐taylor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Commodification

scholarly journals Popular Science Articles and Academic Reports on the Topics of Cultural Commodification and Institutionalised Racism

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
Kate C. P. Vowles-Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Cultural Commodification

This paper examines two aspects within cultural studies, namely that of cultural commodification and institutionalised racism. These are explored through a review style article discussing the commodification and appropriation of indigenous Australian food items on the television cooking programme Masterchef Australia, and in an ‘op-ed’ style piece considering the systemic racism represented by the blackface character of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) in the Dutch festive tradition of Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas). These two articles are followed by case study reports which analyse how the theories were applied. The arguments in the reports conclude that Masterchef Australia has a responsibility to better represent indigenous Australian culture, and that the tradition of Zwarte Piet clearly exemplifies institutionalised racism and discrimination.

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