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Neo-Exoticism Discourses in Indonesian Online Media: Normalizing Cultural Tourism Regime amid Market Economy
This article explores the construction of neo-exoticism discourses in Indonesian online news media. Drawing on online news media research, we show how the transformation of ethnic cultures in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia were positioned as the basis of various tourism events using the representation theory with the discursive constructionist approach. We focus on how some Indonesian online news media reported and positioned Banyuwangi Festival through quotations of government’s official’s statements and descriptions of cultural events that emphasize the transformation of ethnic cultures to meet national and global tourism markets. In doing so, Indonesian online news media actively produced, promoted, and distributed discourses of neo exoticism by emphasizing the beauty of certain of traditional rites, fashions, and arts in various carnivals and festivals. In addition, the media constructed neo-exoticism discourses as a formulas to popularize cultural and touristic events which proved to be beneficial, economically, for local people. However, we argue that broadcasting neo-exotic narratives also created online news media discursive subjects that normalize tourism regimes as managed by the cooperation of government and investors.
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Critical Terrains
Examining and historicizing the concept of \"otherness\" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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De jirafas y hombres: un espectáculo de cuerpos híbridos en Etiópicas de Heliodoro
Este artículo examina la descripción de una jirafa realizada por Heliodoro en Etiópicas 10.27. En primer lugar, se contextualiza esta descripción dentro de los escritos antiguos, tardoantiguos y bizantinos sobre jirafas, y se pone de manifiesto el uso y la manipulación que lleva a cabo Heliodoro de las fuentes historiográficas y científicas. De esto surge la manera en que juega con el realismo histórico, así como la conexión entre los cuerpos maravillosos de la jirafa y Cariclea. Por otra parte, se analiza la aparentemente caótica narración resultante de las proezas atléticas de Teágenes (10.28-32) como un espectáculo coherente que continúa el iniciado por Cariclea y la jirafa. A ojos de los espectadores, el cuerpo de Teágenes se vuelve tan increíble como el de Cariclea.
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China and the West : music, representation, and reception
Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. The emergence of \"Westernized\" music from China -concurrent with the technological advances that have made global culture widely accessible - has not established a prominent presence in the West. China and the West brings together essays on centuries of Sino-Western musical exchange by musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and music theorists from around the world. It opens with a look at theoretical approaches of prior studies of musical encounters and a comprehensive survey of the intercultural and cross-cultural theoretical frameworks-exoticism, orientalism, globalization, transculturation, and hybridization-that inform these essays. Part I focuses on the actual encounters between Chinese and European musicians, their instruments and institutions, and the compositions inspired by these encounters, while Part II examines theatricalized and mediated East-West cultural exchanges, which often drew on stereotypical tropes, resulting in performances more inventive than accurate.Part III looks at the musical language, sonority, and subject matters of \"intercultural\" compositions by Eastern and Western composers. Essays in Part IV address reception studies and consider the ways in which differences are articulated in musical discourse by actors serving different purposes, whether self-promotion, commercial ma
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Fu Poetry along the Silk Roads
This book explores the dissemination of ideas and information on the early silk roads between Europe and China, through the first detailed study of the Sinicization of foreign objects in Chinese poetic writing of the third century CE.
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