Doing democracy
Subtitle: activist art and cultural politics
By: edited by Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern
Series: Praxis: theory in action
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781438449111
Subjects: Arts; Political aspects; Popular culture; Politics in art; Democracy and the arts; Artists; Political activity
Description: "Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: art, culture, democracy / Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern; title: Photo-activism in the digital age: visions from Rio de Janeiro / Frank Möller; title: Framing the Obama political cartoons: injury or democracy? / Sushmita Chatterjee; title: The moral economy: "doing democracy" via public Day of the Dead rituals / Regina Marchi; title: The National D-Day Memorial: an American military monument as "doing democracy" / Timothy W. Luke; title: The message in the medium: poetry slam as democratic practice / Mark Mattern; title: Tragedy and democracy: the fate of liberal democratic values in a violent world / Wairimu Njoya; title: "You're an American rapper, so what do you know?": the political uses of British and US popular culture by first-time voters in the United Kingdom / Sanna Inthorn and John Street; title: Playing with hate: white power music and the undoing of democracy / Nancy S. Love; title: Betrayed by democracy: verbatim theatre as prefigurative politics / Mark Chou and Roland Bleiker; title: Political actors: performance as democratic protest in anti-apartheid theatre / Emily Beausoleil; title: Art in the house: cultural democracy in a neighborhood / Bruce Baum; title: Democracy despite government: African American parading and democratic theory / Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare; title: Conclusion: activist arts, community development, and democracy / Mark Mattern and Nancy S. Love.