REPRESENTATIONS OF PACIFIC IDENTITY AT THE 2012 FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS

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dc.contributor.advisorWitzleben, J. Lawrenceen_US
dc.contributor.authorSullivan, Kirken_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-24T06:21:14Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T06:21:14Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractSince 1972, the countries of the Pacific have come together every four years to express their culture at the Festival of Pacific Arts. In 2012, I traveled to Honiara, Solomon Islands, for the eleventh iteration of this two-week festival. This thesis focuses on the traditional performances by twenty countries at the festival, and explores the presentational choices made by the Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, and Australian cultures represented at the festival. The analysis of performances, recordings, and interviews, utilizing Appadurai's -scapes, reveals the economics, politics, and ideas of these Pacific Islanders in their negotiation of the balance between tradition and modernity. The Festival presents a Bakhtinian carnival allowing participants to demonstrate or resist clichés and conform to or break with conventions, values and established truths. The festival becomes a unique spectacle of resistance, experimentation, and discovery, a place for Pacific Islanders to negotiate their identity in the twenty-first century.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15420
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEthnomusicologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFestival of Pacific Artsen_US
dc.titleREPRESENTATIONS OF PACIFIC IDENTITY AT THE 2012 FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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