Abstract

CITRO, Silvia  and  TORRES AGUERO, Soledad. Multiculturalism and Imaginary Identities in Music and Dance. Alteridades [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.50, pp.117-128. ISSN 2448-850X.

From the analysis of a choreographic and musical play during the most important folklore festival in Argentina, the recent cultural policies of the national State and the provincial government of Formosa Province are reviewed to reshape the imaginary of a multicultural identity that incorporates the native element. However, it is indicated how this involves an exotic perspective that aesthetically emphasizes the otherness of some indigenous characteristics, whereas it hybridizes and makes others invisible, demonstrating the inequalities and tensions of that multicultural ideal. Also, it explores how those tensions tend to be visible by means of the appearance of a famous indigenous leader at the festival.

Keywords : multiculturalism; cultural policies; Argentina; Formosa; Toba people.

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