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The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly global world. George Yudice explores how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a dazzling series of illustrative studies, Yudice shows how the concept of culture-as-resource absorbs and cancels out hitherto prevailing distinctions like those between high and mass culture. He describes a world where "high" culture (such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain) is a mode of urban development, rituals and everyday aesthetic practices are mobilized to promote tourism and the heritage industries, and mass culture industries comprise significant portions of a number of countries' gross national products. Yudice contends that a new international division of cultural labor has emerged, combining local difference with transnational administration and investment. This does not mean, he points out, 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 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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Plný název: Expediency of Culture
• Podnázev: Uses of Culture in the Global Era
• Autor: George Yudice
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 480
• EAN: 9780822331803
• ISBN: 0822331802
• ID: 04937849
• Nakladatelství: Duke University Press
• Hmotnost: 757 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 31 mm
• Datum vydání: 23. January 2004

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