The First Tourist Encounters in Mallorca (1837–1842): Colonial Denationalization and Local Resistance in Music and Dance Performance

Although tourist performance of local identity has been regarded as an instrument of everyday nation-building from below, this article describes the opposite phenomenon as Mallorca became a tourist destination in the nineteenth century. The island’s identity embodied through tourist dance performanc...

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Autor: Vives, Antoni, 1977-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:ubarcelona__::ccd5d0d8472ac76e08a570476f4caaf1
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/229197
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Turisme cultural
Performance (Art)
Mallorca (Illes Balears)
Heritage tourism
Performance art
Majorca (Balearic Islands)
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Sumario:Although tourist performance of local identity has been regarded as an instrument of everyday nation-building from below, this article describes the opposite phenomenon as Mallorca became a tourist destination in the nineteenth century. The island’s identity embodied through tourist dance performances, led to denationalization and subaltern silencing in the production process of a Mediterranean and insular exotic otherness of colonial nature. In this respect, this article explains how the host population refused to assume a denationalized local identity, as well as to perform a colonial stereotype through dance