Synopsis
This is going to still be spun a bit, but here's what I told the Graduate School:
This project explores the impact of marketing strategies on emerging identities of Moroccans, focusing on ways a racialized minority, the Gnawa, have imagined themselves as a diasporic community. Using ethnography, music analysis, and media critique, I examine how Gnawa music is produced and circulated in order to discern ideologies of identity imbedded and embodied in performances and recordings.
posted by John Schaefer @ 1:40 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds intriguing, John. I wish you best in that endeavor. How cool to incorporate music into the thesis. I suppose its their biggest outlet, or form of personal identity? By the way, is this for a doctorate in sociology?
Yeah, music expresses identity, but I think it can also be used to create identity. This is for a doctorate in anthropology, with emphasis on folklore and cultural studies.
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