1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788373203321

Autore

Fernandez-Kelly Patricia

Titolo

Art in the lives of immigrant communities in the United States / / edited by Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-36998-2

9786613369987

0-8135-5041-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 292 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Rutgers series on the public life of the arts

Altri autori (Persone)

DiMaggioPaul

Fernández-KellyMaría Patricia <1948->

Disciplina

700.86/9120973

Soggetti

Arts and society - United States - History - 20th century

Arts and society - United States - History - 21st century

Immigrants - United States - Social life and customs

United States Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The diversity and mobility of immigrant arts / Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernández-Kelly -- Migrants and the transformation of Philadelphia's cultural sector / Mark J. Stern, Susan C. Seifert, and Domenic Vitiello -- A howl to the heavens: art in the life of first- and second-generation Cuban Americans / Patricia Fernández-Kelly -- Inside and outside the box: the politics of Arab American identity and artistic representations / Amaney Jamal -- Desis in and out of the house: South Asian youth culture in the United States before and after 9/11 / Sunaina Maira -- The intimate circle: finding common ground in mariachi and norteña music / Clifford R. Murphy -- GenerAsians learn Chinese: the Asian American youth generation and new class formations / Deborah Wong -- Unfinished journey: Mexican migration through the visual arts / Gilberto Cárdenas -- Immigrant art as liminal expression: the case of Central Americans / Cecilia Menjívar -- Negotiating memories of war: arts in Vietnamese American communities / Yen Le Espiritu -- Miracles on the border: the votive art of Mexican migrants to the United States / Jorge Durand and Douglas S.



Massey -- Visual culture and visual piety in Little Haiti: the sea, the tree, and the refugee / Terry Rey and Alex Stepick.

Sommario/riassunto

Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807930903321

Autore

Lowes Mark Douglas <1969->

Titolo

Indy dreams and urban nightmares : speed merchants, spectacle, and the struggle over public space in the world-class city / / Mark Douglas Lowes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4426-7022-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares

Disciplina

307.76/0971133

Soggetti

Automobile racing - British Columbia - Vancouver

City planning - British Columbia - Vancouver - Citizen participation

Public spaces - British Columbia - Vancouver

Sports and tourism - British Columbia - Vancouver

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Hastings Park (Vancouver, B.C.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Spectacular Consumption Spaces""; ""2 Competing Visions""; ""3 Selling the Spectacle""; ""4 Resisting the Spectacle""; ""5 Spectacular Space and the Ideology of the 'World-Class' City""; ""APPENDIX: A NOTE ON METHOD""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

What role do sporting spectacles play in the making of a 'world-class' city?Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares reports on the conflict that arose between a Vancouver community and the civic boosters who wanted to move the Molson Indy Vancouver motorsport event to their neighbourhood park. Arguing that such events are simply a matter of economic and cultural 'common sense', the civic boosters promoted the Indy spectacle as a means of gaining 'world-class' status for the city. Against this background, Lowes explores the complex relations among major league sport, urban landscape, and civic identity. He argues that the capacity to articulate a city's 'vision' for itself is an important manifestation of power and ideology, and a notable point of struggle in contemporary urban life. This encompasses much larger issues related to the struggle over urban public space and the legitimacy of a particular narrative of urban growth and civic identity - one that increasingly privileges the consumer over the citizen. Provocative and engaging, this study examines the impact of major sports events on urban centres, and shows how urban public culture is defined and shaped by competition for the right to conceptualize, control, and experience a city's public spaces.