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...Himanee Gupta-Carlson Abstract Hip-hop originated as an artistic form of protest among disenfranchised African Americans and is now a global vehicle of communication. A core of devotees known as b-boys and b-girls have dedicated themselves to using hip-hop as a political vehicle toward a better...

...Sarah Surak Abstract Contemporary artistic installations presenting the detritus of everyday life are an increasingly popular method of raising awareness of what we produce, consume, and throw away. As social critique, these displays examine the political and economic causes and consequences...

...James Calder; Charlie Umland Abstract The Situationist Internationale (SI) were a group of artists, theorists and revolutionaries active in the late ’50s and ’60s in continental Europe, particularly in France. While the SI remains relatively well known today, for their involvement...

...Frank Möller Abstract In this paper, it is argued that it is given not only to artists but also to citizen- photographers, both professional and non-professional, to make a new world order. Rather than being unreflective and unpolitical snappers on autopilot, citizen-photographers help create what...

... Cornel West, the author argues that the tragicomic hope that characterizes the musical and artistic heritage of blues people offers an incomparable resource for political renewal. Specifically, representations of moral resistance against racial terror can reconfigure our understanding of the relationship...

... physical and public presence, it was also visualized in numerous posters and drawings designed for The Black Panther, the Party’s newspaper and chief means of political dissemination. Emory Douglas, the primary artist at The Black Panther during the Party’s peak from the late 1960s to the early 1970s...

...Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey; Nadia E. Brown Abstract Music has been thought of as an art form that expresses ideas and sentiments of the artist. This article examines the relationship between political and non-political rap and Black feminist attitudes. This study includes data from original...

... amount of time were less likely to support solitary confinement. We also analyze how the political, demographic, and attitudinal characteristics of respondents, influence the impact of the artistic intervention on attitudes about solitary confinement. We find evidence that gender, race, political...

...Michael Hoover; Lisa Odham Stokes Abstract According to self-proclaimed “border artist” Guillermo Gomez-Pena, “in one way or another toe are all, or will be immigrants.” But what does it mean to cross a border that Gomez-Pena calls a “multiple metaphor of death, encounter, fortune, insanity...

...Ron Sakolsky Ron Sakolsky Toward The Creation OfA Democratic Cultural Policy: A Comparative Analysis Of The Alliance for Cultural Democracy (U.S.) And Another Standard (U.K.) Culture is the sea in which art swims. That sea is itself not a static thing but is alternately turbulent and calm. Artists...

... of that disenchanted world from politics. In response he has written an unusual, and an unusually compelling and provocative, book that draws on his extensive knowledge of the artistic and political movements of the twentieth century. It seeks to take what is best from both to reinvigorate the contemporary moment...

... critical power is in the hands of a communal audience. The act of going to museum exhibitions of artifacts, objects and events as fractured detours from social and political life is a recent social phenomena and the act of analyzing and writing about works of art by non-artists is even more recent. Luke...

... benefited the most from this mass migration of cultural symbols to become arguably the most important artistic global force in the last three decades. From its emergence during the urban struggles of New York in the 1970s, its reach today spans all seven continents. At the same time, hip-hop is what we call...

..., not a cold detached man always in control-the kind so beloved by the British and typified by their crown prince. After Picasso's best friend, Carles Casagemas, committed suicide in 1901, the young artist, struggling desperately to make a name for himself, brought nothing but blues to the canvas, as if he...

..., which includes both academics and artists. By not distinguishing between the two vocations, Nickel asserts, rather than shows, that they are identical. She couches the connection between the academician and the artist on the assumption that both, as both products and producers of culture, pursue...

... assistant, Robert Heishman, had the opportunity to spend an afternoon with Senator McGovern, who shared his personal collection of posters with them. LaterWert and Heishman crisscrossed the country to locate other posters and, in some cases, also meet the artists who made them. This book collects the best...

... autonomous dimension, within which artists create a different language and assert another, more life-affirming vision. Artists are always outsiders, not based on their social or geographical location but because of the "essential transcendence of art" and the unique, subjective lens it expresses. Nonetheless...

... democracy? These questions arise in a context of rapidly expanding global communications networks. Access to the arts and popular cultural forms has increased commensurately with access to the Internet experienced all over the globe. Musicians, photographers, graffiti artists, painters, dancers, performance...

... is an apparently freewheeling hipster artist, and Ben, who is settled down, married, working a 9-5 job, and trying to have a child with his wife, Anna. The story takes off when Andrew arrives at Ben and Anna's house in the middle of the night from a stay in Mexico. In his first day in town, Andrew meets a woman...

... Ibid., 662. 25 Kasza, "The Marginalization of Political Philosophy," p. 698. 26 Kaufman-Osborne, "Political Theory," p. 662. 27 Howard Zinn, Artists in Times of War (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003). A Post-Parsimonious Proposition 383 don't lose your sense of humor or your faith in art. I confess...