Doing Democracy

Acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction: Art, Culture, Democracy
Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern

Part II. Photography and Cartoons

2. Photo-Activism in the Digital Age: Visions from Rio de Janeiro
Frank Möller

3. Framing the Obama Political Cartoons: Injury or Democracy?
Sushmita Chatterjee

Part III. Monuments and Memorials

4. The Moral Economy: "Doing Democracy" via Public Day of the Dead Rituals
Regina Marchi

5. The National D-Day Memorial: An American Military Monument as "Doing Democracy"
Timothy W. Luke

Part IV. Literature and Poetry

6. The Message in the Medium: Poetry Slam as Democratic Practice
Mark Mattern

7. Tragedy and Democracy: The Fate of Liberal Democratic Values in a Violent World
Wairimu Njoya

Part V. Music

8. "You're an American rapper, so what do you know?": The Political Uses of British and U.S. Popular Culture by First-Time Voters in the United Kingdom
Sanna Inthorn and John Street

9. Playing with Hate: White Power Music and the Undoing of Democracy
Nancy S. Love

Part VI. Theater

10. Betrayed by Democracy: Verbatim Theater as Prefigurative Politics
Mark Chou and Roland Bleiker

11. Political Actors: Performance as Democratic Protest in Anti-Apartheid Theater
Emily Beausoleil

Part VII. Festival and Spectacle

12. Art in the House: Cultural Democracy in a Neighborhood
Bruce Baum

13. Democracy despite Government: African American Parading and Democratic Theory
Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare

Part VIII. Conclusion

14. Conclusion: Activist Arts, Community Development, and Democracy
Mark Mattern and Nancy S. Love

Contributors
Index