
Culture Works
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Exposing and challenging the taken-for-granted assumptions around questions of space, value and mobility that are sustained by neoliberal treatments of culture, Culture Works explores some of the hierarchies of cultural workers that these engender, as they play out in a variety of settings, from shopping malls in Puerto Rico and art galleries in New York to tango tourism in Buenos Aires. Noted scholar Arlene Davila brilliantly reveals how similar dynamics of space, value and mobility come to bear in each location, inspiring particular cultural politics that have repercussions that are both geographically specific, but also ultimately global in scope.
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Culture Works challenges us to think critically about Latino/a culture and the men and women who create it every day. From shopping malls in Puerto Rico to art galleries in East Harlem and tango palaces in Buenos Aires, Arlene Davila shows us the underbelly of a global political economy that gorges itself on authentic cultural forms and grinds them down into commodities. Davilas understanding of these complex forces illuminates the connections between all creative landscapes and the elites who try to mold them to their political will. - Sharon Zukin,author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places Culture Works looks deeply into and beyond the current rhetoric on art with an acuity and sense of irony and understanding of the realpolitiks that are all too rare in the cultural policy literature. Professor Davila has given us a brilliant introduction and guide to the complex interactions of art, markets, politics, and community in the first part of the 21st century. - Paul DiMaggio,author of Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts The author effectively dissects the contradictory and often deleterious impact of neoliberal development in promoting inequalities of race, class, and nationality, while at the same time encoding and keying the value of Latin American folk art traditions and cultural economies...highly recommended for all academic levels/libraries. (CHOICE)More details
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