Papers by William Washabaugh
Dance Research Journal, 1997
Becoming Wolf, 2024
Most existing interpretations of werewolf films see them to be dramatizations of challenges to no... more Most existing interpretations of werewolf films see them to be dramatizations of challenges to normal identity continuity. This present interpretation proposes that many such films reject normal identity and explore alternatives to continuity by featuring characters that are internally complex and constantly emerging.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Dec 1, 1999
Routledge eBooks, Feb 25, 2021
Routledge eBooks, May 26, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Feb 25, 2021
Routledge eBooks, Feb 25, 2021
Semiotica, 1986
... Issue 3 (Jan 1969) , pp. -. Volume 1-100 (1994). Issue s1 (Jan 1994) , pp. -. Download full t... more ... Issue 3 (Jan 1969) , pp. -. Volume 1-100 (1994). Issue s1 (Jan 1994) , pp. -. Download full text pdf (PDF, 1 MB). 30,00 € / $45.00*. The acquisition of communicative skills by the deaf of Providence Island. WILLIAM WASHABAUGH. Citation Information: Semiotica. ...
Flamenco was transformed into a symbol of Spanish national identity during the Franco's regime. T... more Flamenco was transformed into a symbol of Spanish national identity during the Franco's regime. This Andalusian style of music has, during the latter half of the twentieth century, turned from locally performed musical genre into an art form that is appreciated and performed around the world. The musical style has become an artifact that brings Spain groups of tourists who are chasing the authentic flamenco performance of the yesteryears and eager students who want to learn the style and its aesthetics more thoroughly. Yet, this globally known symbol of Spain is now being reconstructed as a non-national, patrimonial cultural marker of Andalusian identity. At the same time flamenco is also being used to oppose the national political interest that it has served in the past. William Washabaugh's book Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain tackles this interesting turn in the study of flamenco, providing a refreshing insight on 'the cultural and political reverberations that accompany flamenco performance' (2012, xi). Here, Washabaugh 'examines the processes through which flamenco is being cultivated as a marker of Andalusian identity and a patrimonial symbol of Andalusian autonomy' and also 'looks at the steps that Andalusians have taken to avoid transforming flamenco into a fixed and well-defined patrimonial object' (2012, 7). The aim is to pay attention to the future of flamenco rather than towards the past as other works, including his own (Washabaugh, 1996) have done. Through this forward-leaning emphasis, he demonstrates how flamenco provides Andalusians an opportunity to realize solidarity and autonomy. For researchers in a wider research context, there are two useful themes regarding style and recording. Discussions about style are faced with the difficulty of distinguishing a simple set of stylistic features; flamenco's hybrid nature makes it difficult to say what flamenco is and what it is not, while opinions on the matter vary from one group to the next. Washabaugh uses the idea of musical promise as a way to define the flamenco style, by proposing that musical style should be understood as an aspiration through which musicians create a desirable identity. He is not denying that artists respond to past experiences but argues that they do so in the process of envisioning the possible future, in which an intuitive and organic development towards perfection may be regarded as a teleonomic concept of style. Through this perspective, style is not only connected to the issue of authenticity but also to the search for an ideal of what the art works want to be. The search for authenticity is therefore leaning
The Passion of Music and Dance, 2020
Luso-Brazilian Review, 1981
Creoles are a category of mixed languages that arose during the period of European overseas expan... more Creoles are a category of mixed languages that arose during the period of European overseas expansion. Like all languages, creoles satisfy at least two major needs of the social groups that use them. First, they provide a world of meaning for their speakers( ...
Routledge eBooks, May 26, 2020
Routledge eBooks, May 26, 2020
Routledge eBooks, May 26, 2020
The title "Sign Language in its Social Context" is intended to be systematically ambigu... more The title "Sign Language in its Social Context" is intended to be systematically ambiguous. On the one hand, I will report here on the impact of social life on the sign languages of the deaf. On the other hand, I want to explore the manner in which our intellectualized knowledge of sign languages of the deaf has been influenced by our social and noetic context. In other words, I will be exploring the impact of society on deaf signers and also the impact of a larger social tradition on us, the describers of deaf signers. The first is a sociolinguistic enterprise; the second is better classified as metasociolinguistic. Such a double intent, objective on the one hand and self-critical on the other, is made necessary by the history of deaf studies.
Popular Music and Society, 2009
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