Doing democracy [electronic resource] : activist art and cultural politics / edited by Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: art, culture, democracy / Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern -- Photo-activism in the digital age: visions from Rio de Janeiro / Frank Möller -- Framing the Obama political cartoons: injury or democracy? / Sushmita Chatterjee -- The moral economy: doing democracy via public day of the dead rituals / Regina Marchi -- The national D-Day memorial: an American military monument as "doing democracy" / Timothy W. Luke -- The message in the medium: poetry slam as democratic practice / Mark Mattern -- Tragedy and democracy: the fate of liberal democratic values in a violent world / Wairimu Njoya -- "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 / Sanna Inthorn and John Street -- Playing with hate: white power music and the undoing of democracy / Nancy S. Love -- Betrayed by democracy: verbatim theatre as prefigurative politics / Mark Chou and Roland Bleiker -- Political actors: performance as democratic protest in anti-apartheid theatre / Emily Beausoleil -- Art in the house: cultural democracy in a neighborhood / Bruce Baum -- Democracy despite government: African American parading and democratic theory / Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare -- Conclusion: activist arts, community development, and democracy / Mark Mattern and Nancy S. Love.

"Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future"--Provided by publisher.

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