Racy, A.J. <br/><br/>
Domesticating Otherness: The Snake Charmer in American Popular Culture. 
A.J. Racy 
 - Illinois-XXU :   University of Illinois Press,   2016. 
 - páginas 197-232:  ilustraciones en blanco y negro. 
 - Tres veces al año 
 - vol. 60, no. 2 (2016) 
 - Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology ;   no. 2 .
 - Estados Unidos.   Society for Ethnomusicology. .
<br/><br/> Metaphoric allusions to otherness are widely encountered and of- tentimes taken for granted. Exploring the use of the snake-charming theme in American popular media, I discuss why and how such a supposedly foreign theme is borrowed, metaphorically adapted, and locally applied. The central premise is that such a process is integrally linked to the borrower's own history and cultural outlooks. Besides reflecting my own first-hand experience, the nar- ratives engage relevant discourses on representation, exoticism, imagination, metaphor, and power. Generally, the research illustrates how tropes of otherness acquire their forms and meanings as they become localized, or domesticated. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>INSTRUMENTOS DE VIENTO MUSICA ENCANTADORES SERPIENTES