Global Cultural Flows
- Romantic Primitivism and Cultural Change
- Cultures are always in change
- King Sunny Ade and Electric Guitar; Muddy Waters and
Ali Farka Toure; Chinese Clouds of Iranian Origin; Accordian in Cajunto
music- Flaco?
- How to Assess Global Cultural Change- Arjun Appadurai
- Who he is- Univ of Chicago cultural anthropologist;
harder reading; so just learn these basics:
- Globalization- making global, exposing to global
- Indigenization- making local, expressing local
meaning in things received from global flow; hard to see
- Flows- movement of things, ideas, products;
process
- Disjunctive- Flows interact but do not
determine one another.
- The Disjunctive 'Scapes' of Appadurai
- Ethnoscape- movement of people, tourists, workers
- Technoscape- movement of technologies, skills
- Finanscape- movement of finance into and out of
regions
- Mediascape- movement of media 'products'
- Ideoscape- movement of ideas, political strategies
and 'goals'
- The Global Grassroots Infrastructure article of Uncapher
- Transnational Corporations- looking for cheap
labor, low taxes, new markets. E.g. Computer programmers in India. Leave
behind communications infrastructure?
- National Governments- looking for votes, using
power of physical enforcement and symbolic role in media.
Fragmenting? New Cultural Identities. Decline of power?
- Global Grassroots Infrastructure- ad hoc assemblages
of people that can coordinate activity and interests using new media, particularly
Internet. Eg. Activists? TAZ underground