The Expediency of Culture : Uses of Culture in the Global Era PDF
by Yudice George Yudice
Part of the Post-Contemporary Interventions series
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Yudice contends that a new international division of cultural labor has emerged, combining local difference with transnational administration and investment. This does not mean that today's increasingly transnational culture-exemplified by the entertainment industries and the so-called global civil society of nongovernmental organizations-is necessarily homogenized. He demonstrates that national and regional differences are still functional, shaping the meaning of phenomena from pop songs to antiracist activism. Yudice considers a range of sites where identity politics and cultural agency are negotiated in the face of powerful transnational forces. He analyzes appropriations of American funk music as well as a citizen action initiative in Rio de Janeiro to show how global notions such as cultural difference are deployed within specific social fields. He provides a political and cultural economy of a vast and increasingly influential art event- insite a triennial festival extending from San Diego to Tijuana. He also reflects on the city of Miami as one of a number of transnational "cultural corridors" and on the uses of culture in an unstable world where censorship and terrorist acts interrupt the usual channels of capitalist and artistic flows.
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- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:23/01/2004
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- ISBN:9780822385370
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:23/01/2004
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- ISBN:9780822385370