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  • 'For hire': Marketing ceremonial Bata drumming on YouTube

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    Windress, Kent
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    Windress, Kent A.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    This paper examines the emergence of marketing practices on YouTube that promote ceremonial Cuban bata drumming. A primary consideration for analysis will focus on how authenticity of practice is conveyed to users through the technological affordances offered by YouTube. While a number of discourses surround the concept of what constitutes the authentic (e.g. Bruner, 1994; Keister, 2005; Lindholm, 2002; Taylor, 2014), in the case of ceremonial Cuban bata drumming authenticity is most often conveyed through adherence to the religious conventions and expectations that govern performance, which is in turn sanctioned through ...
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    This paper examines the emergence of marketing practices on YouTube that promote ceremonial Cuban bata drumming. A primary consideration for analysis will focus on how authenticity of practice is conveyed to users through the technological affordances offered by YouTube. While a number of discourses surround the concept of what constitutes the authentic (e.g. Bruner, 1994; Keister, 2005; Lindholm, 2002; Taylor, 2014), in the case of ceremonial Cuban bata drumming authenticity is most often conveyed through adherence to the religious conventions and expectations that govern performance, which is in turn sanctioned through religious authority bestowed upon the bata drums and drummers through complex initiation rituals.
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    Conference Title
    Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Australia-New Zealand 2014 Conference. Into the Mix: People, Place, Processes.
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    http://www.iaspm.net/iaspm-australia-new-zealand-branch-2014-conference/
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    © The Author(s) 2014. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the author[s].
    Subject
    Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/342072
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