{"id":34303,"date":"2013-10-13T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34303"},"modified":"2013-10-13T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T23:49:08","slug":"contesting-identities-through-walker-dance-mestizo-performance-in-the-southern-andes-of-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34303","title":{"rendered":"Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~repercus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/repercussions-Vol.-3-No.-2-Mendoza-Walker-Zoila-Contesting-Identities-Through-Dance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~repercus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Repercussions: a journal dedicated to all areas of music studies<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~repercus\/?page_id=247\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 2<\/a><br \/>\npages 50-80<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoila Mendoza-Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This article analyzes an event in the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cusco_Region\" target=\"_blank\">Cusco, Peru<\/a> that reverberated throughout the entire region during the late 1980s. This incident, which became known as the &#8220;events of Corpus,&#8221; generated a series of open antagonisms that pitted young members of Cusco ritual dance associations (called <em>comparsas<\/em>) who performed dances from the &#8220;Altiplano&#8221; region against a coalition of civil, religious and &#8220;cultural&#8221; authorities who opposed that performance. These confrontations, which have continued into the early 1990s, demonstrated the relevance of <em>comparsa<\/em> performance and of state and private &#8220;cultural institutions&#8221; in the definition and redefinition of local and regional identity among Cusco &#8220;mestizos.&#8221; In particular, they made evident that these dances were being used by young mestizo <em>cusque\u00f1os<\/em> (people of Cusco), especially women, to construct a new public identity that contested the gender and &#8220;ethnic&#8221; stereotypes promoted by the cultural institutions. Here I will discuss in some detail the confrontations that emerged in, the town of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Jer%C3%B3nimo_District,_Cusco\" target=\"_blank\">San Jer\u00f3nimo<\/a> demonstrating how a &#8220;folkloric&#8221; institution such as the <em>comparsa<\/em> can become a site for transformation rather than conservation of cultural values and roles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~repercus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/repercussions-Vol.-3-No.-2-Mendoza-Walker-Zoila-Contesting-Identities-Through-Dance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru Repercussions: a journal dedicated to all areas of music studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 2 pages 50-80 Zoila Mendoza-Walker This article analyzes an event in the city of Cusco, Peru that reverberated throughout the entire region during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,24,8],"tags":[16135,6725,1392,16134,16133,16132],"class_list":["post-34303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","tag-cusco","tag-dance","tag-music","tag-repercussions","tag-repercussions-a-journal-dedicated-to-all-areas-of-music-studies","tag-zoila-mendoza-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}