Doctoral Dissertation Research: Postsocialist Movement: Performance, Political Economy, and Transmigration Between Guinea and the United States

博士论文研究：后社会主义运动：表现、政治经济学以及几内亚和美国之间的移民

• 批准号: 1226266
• 负责人: Douglas Rogers
• 金额: $ 1.59万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Postsocialist; Movement

Yale University doctoral candidate Adrienne Cohen, supervised by Dr. Michael McGovern, will investigate the relationship between expressive culture and political-economic change in post socialist contexts. The researcher proposes a reciprocal relationship between expressive practice and political economy in which political-economic dynamics are expressed through performance and performing artists play a role in calling new social and ethical orders into being.Research to investigate this proposition will be conducted in Guinea, West Africa, and in the United States. The Guinean socialist state of Sékou Tourés (1958-84), like other socialist states in other parts of the world, subsidized the modernization of expressive culture, particularly dance and percussion, in the service of nationalist politics. When socialism ended with Touré's death, the new regime drastically reduced government arts patronage. Performing artists, abandoned by the state, formed private troupes and began to emigrate in the 1990s, many taking up residence in the United States. This project engages two generations of dancers and percussionists from Guinea: one trained during the socialist period, and the other trained in the post socialist era. Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among artists in Guinea's capital city of Conakry, and among transmigrant artists in California and New York, this study examines post socialist conditions of economic and cultural exchange between Guinea and its diaspora. Data collection throughout the study will involve a combination of ethnographic methods, including: semi-structured interviews, participant observation, archival media research, migration narratives, and focus groups, in which participants discuss video and audio recordings of relevant performances. The research is important because it will be the first to address the convergence of performing arts, post socialism, and transmigration; it will contribute a new dimension to theories of socialism and its aftermath under conditions of globalization and transnationalism. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

耶鲁大学博士候选人阿德里安娜·科恩，由迈克尔·麦戈文博士监督，将研究表达文化和政治经济变化之间的关系在后社会主义背景下。研究者提出了表达实践和政治经济之间的相互关系，其中政治经济动态通过表演表达，表演艺术家在呼吁新的社会和伦理秩序的形成中发挥作用。研究将在几内亚、西非和美国进行调查。几内亚社会主义国家塞库·图雷（1958-84），像世界其他地区的社会主义国家一样，资助表现文化的现代化，特别是舞蹈和打击乐，为民族主义政治服务。当社会主义随着图雷的去世而结束时，新政权大幅减少了政府对艺术的赞助。 1990年代，被国家抛弃的表演艺术家组建了私人剧团，并开始移民，许多人在美国定居。该项目吸引了来自几内亚的两代舞蹈家和舞蹈家：一个在社会主义时期接受培训，另一个在后社会主义时期接受培训。 通过在几内亚首都科纳克里的艺术家之间的多站点的民族志实地考察，并在加州和纽约的移民艺术家，本研究探讨后社会主义条件下的经济和文化交流几内亚和它的侨民。 整个研究过程中的数据收集将涉及民族志方法的组合，包括：半结构化访谈，参与者观察，档案媒体研究，移民叙事和焦点小组，参与者讨论相关表演的视频和音频记录。这项研究很重要，因为它将是第一个解决表演艺术，后社会主义和轮回的融合;它将为社会主义理论及其在全球化和跨国主义条件下的后果提供一个新的维度。资助这项研究也支持研究生的教育。