AN220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: World Economy, Bollywood, Ecotourism
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Art and identity: art objects and styles as carriers of cultural identity, art and ethnicity in multiethnic societies, iconic use of dance and music, ex: indian student groups in univ, putting on bollywood dance performances (expressing indian-ness. Control of nation identity in states: banning certain arts, nature, beauty, children = encouraged, anything negative or non-soviet were banned. Incorporation of indigenous peoples into regional, national, and global networks. Influence of market demands on styles and motifs: art for export market may be major sources of income. Art and tourism: ecotourism and cultural tourism, traditional meanings and sacred forms transformed as entertainment, ethnic art. Chapter 14 living in a global world. What is globalization: the process by which the world increasingly becomes one market, dominated by electronic culture, scope and scale is changing happening much faster, examples: colonialism, language, agriculture, sweatshops, neoliberalism: minimal government interference.
