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The First Tourist Encounters in Mallorca (1837–1842): Colonial Denationalization and Local Resistance in Music and Dance Performance
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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
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VIVES, Antoni. The First Tourist Encounters in Mallorca (1837–1842): Colonial Denationalization and Local Resistance in Music and Dance Performance. European History Quarterly. 2024. Vol. 54, num. 2, pags. 300-318. ISSN 0265-6914. [consulted: 14 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/229197