Doing democracy :  activist art and cultural politics / 
edited by Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Praxis: theory in action .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: art, culture, democracy /  Photo-activism in the digital age: visions from Rio de Janeiro /  Framing the Obama political cartoons: injury or democracy? /  The moral economy: doing democracy via public day of the dead rituals /  The national D-Day memorial: an American military monument as "doing democracy" /  The message in the medium: poetry slam as democratic practice /  Tragedy and democracy: the fate of liberal democratic values in a violent world /  "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 UK /  Playing with hate: white power music and the undoing of democracy /  Betrayed by democracy: verbatim theatre as prefigurative politics /  Political actors: performance as democratic protest in anti-apartheid theatre /  Art in the house: cultural democracy in a neighborhood /  Democracy despite government: African American parading and democratic theory /  Conclusion: activist arts, community development, and democracy /  Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern --  Frank Möller --  Sushmita Chatterjee --  Regina Marchi --  Timothy W. Luke --  Mark Mattern --  Wairimu Njoya --  Sanna Inthorn and John Street --  Nancy S. Love --  Mark Chou and Roland Bleiker --  Emily Beausoleil --  Bruce Baum --  Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare --  Mark Mattern and Nancy S. Love. 
<br/><br/> "Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future"--Provided by publisher. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781461951445 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts--Political aspects.<br/>Popular culture--Political aspects.<br/>Politics in art.<br/>Democracy and the arts.<br/>Artists--Political activity.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX650  / .D656 2013