Material Type  

 학위논문

 

0016934828

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20240214101658

ISBN  

9798380168854

DDC  

306

Author  

Morley, Margaret L.

Title/Author  

From Vibration to Visual Aesthetics: Political Economies of Attention in Cairos Contemporary Belly Dance Industry - [electronic resource]

Publish Info  

[S.l.] : Indiana University., 2023

Publish Info  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Material Info  

1 online resource(191 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Greene, L. Shane;Royce, Anya Peterson.

학위논문주기  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2023.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약This dissertation seeks to answer the question: how have foreign dancers come to seemingly dominate the belly dance industry in Egypt, in spite of most Egyptians' negative evaluations of foreigners' competence in the skills essential to Egyptian belly dance? Through answering, I also argue that the shifting values of the senses and beauty standards towards what sells best on social media exemplifies what I am calling "aesthetic colonization." Foreigners are only dominating the parts of the industry visible to the general public - those whose marketing is entwined with social media - while Egyptians continue to predominate in venues operating largely outside of social media. In the latter, the aesthetic favors attunement to senses of vibration (sound, affect) and attention as interpersonal care is bought and sold, cultivating relational value. In the former, the visual aesthetics of Instagram prevail, and female beauty and attention are commodified to circulate online. The movement from prioritizing senses of vibration to a visual aesthetic is symptomatic of ongoing colonization processes, in particular the expansion and intensification of neoliberal capitalism and with it the increasingly onerous discipling of bodies. Due to the coloniality of power, proximity to whiteness and wealth are valued, putting foreign dancers at an advantage over Egyptians in contexts where the visual is more important than the vibrational. Furthermore, as discipline in the Foucauldian sense is based on the threat of possible attention and women in Egyptian society are generally supposed to avoid drawing attention to their moving bodies, the visibility demands of media capitalism and its attendant political economies of attention are dangerous to Egyptian women in ways that often don't apply to foreign dancers. Thus, I argue that attention is both a resource and a weapon, and in both cases, is used to further discipline women's adherence to gender norms and beauty ideals, intensifying as the visual becomes more important than the vibrational.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Cultural anthropology.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Middle Eastern studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Dance.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Aesthetics.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Attention

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Belly dance

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Coloniality

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Political economy

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

Indiana University Anthropology

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03A.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

Electronic Location and Access  

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소장사항  

202402 2024

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joongbu:640955