Spectacle and Vulgarity: Stripper Dance at Temple Festivals in Contemporary Taiwan-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Spectacle and Vulgarity: Stripper Dance at Temple Festivals in Contemporary Taiwan

Published:2011-03 Issue:1 Volume:55 Page:104-119
ISSN:1054-2043
Container-title:TDR/The Drama Review
language:en
Short-container-title:TDR/The Drama Review

Author:

Chen Chiung-chi¹

Affiliation:

1. Chiung-chi Chen received a PhD in ethnomusicology from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006. Her dissertation, “From the Sublime to the Obscene: The Performativity of Popular Religion in Taiwan,” examines the continuities and changes in performing arts associated with Taiwanese popular religion over the last three decades in contemporary Taiwan. Her principal geocultural specialties are China and Taiwan, and the secondary area is Asian America, particularly musical contacts and exchanges in the...

Abstract

Starting in the early 1980s, female striptease shows mounted on the backs of trucks, known as “electronic festooned vehicles” (EFVs), have been popular entertainments offered to the deities at temple festivals. The EFV takes the “realities” of contemporary Taiwanese society—sexism, capitalism, and social hierarchy—and re-presents them in an evocative/provocative form.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Link

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/DRAM_a_00051

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