Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

Index

 Academia Nacional del Tango, 140 Aguado, Bill, 84–85, 87, 88–89, 202n3.2 anticonsumption discourse, 23 Apollo Theater, 78 Areatres, 173 Argentimes (newspaper), 173, 184 Argentina, 167–175, 183–188; arable land, 170; bicentennial, 170, 172; boosterism, 170–172; Buenos Aires (see Buenos Aires); colonialism, 160; economic collapse (2001), 141; European citizenship, 184; immigration, 167–168, 183–184; income inequality, 170; labor legislation, 174–175; middleclass Argentineans, 159, 181, 184–188; national identity, 136, 183; nationalism, 8; neoliberalism, 7–8, 20, 140, 170; peso devaluation (2002), 141, 169; redistributive policies, 170; “rentista” permits, 167–168; Revolución Libertadora (1955), 139; tourism visibility, 143 Argentina Para Armar (news show), 183 Argentine Independent (newspaper), 173, 180 “Art Works” (National Endowment for the Arts), 2–3, 76 artisans. See Puerto Rican artisans artists. See Latino artists; Puerto Rican artists arts. See government funding for the arts Asamblea del Pueblo of San Telmo, 146, 156 Asian American Arts Center, 84–85 Ask Chuleta (Raimundi-Ortiz), 133 authenticity: consumption and leisure, marketing of, 10; craft production, 49; politics of, 192–193; Puerto Rican artisans, 51, 59, 70, 192; of tango, 147–151, 192; as “weapons of the weak,” 192 Barranquitas National Folk Art Fair, 52 “barrio creatives”: creative expats compared to, 166; Cultural Equity Group (CEG), 92–93; culture, 5, 82; in East Harlem (“El Barrio”), 73–74, 82 barrioization, 10–11 Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 100, 102 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 24 Bloomberg, Michael, 7, 81, 82 boliches (dance clubs), 140, 154 bomba y plena music spaces, 11 Borrero, Nilda, 69 Bronx Council of the Arts, 84–85 Bronx Historical Society, 83 Brooklyn Historical Society, 83 Brooklyn Museum, 119, 128, 132 Buenos Aires: Abasto neighborhood, 137, 142; Abasto Plaza, 145; apartment rentals, 153; Areatres, 173; as Argentina’s “showcase,” 193–194; arts, government funding for, 176; bohemian identity, bohemization, 20, 137, 162; boliches (dance clubs), 140, 154; economic recovery, 137; economic restructuring, 6; European identity, 159–160; expatriates in (see expat community in Buenos Aires); “first-world” city, aspirations as a, 19–20, 165; gay-friendly status, 165; gentrification, 152–154, 182; health care, 175–176; La Boca neighborhood, 162; Index Numbers in italics refer to illustrations.   Index Buenos Aires (Continued) La Esquina Carlos Gardel tango show, 142; middle-class residents, 186; nationalism, 8; neoliberalism, 6, 8, 137, 165, 168, 196–197; Nueva Pompeya neighborhood, 170; openness to foreign influences, 137–138; Palermo Soho neighborhood, 173; parallel economies in, 153; popularity with foreigners, 137; racial and ethnic dynamics, 158; racial exclusivity, 168–169; Rivadavia Avenue, 153– 154; sanitization of space, 152–153; spatial segregation of difference, 138; Suipacha Street, 155; tango, 135 (see also tango tourism in Buenos Aires); Teatro Colón, 170; tourism, 8 (see also tango tourism in Buenos Aires); tourism visibility, 143 Buenos Aires Tango Festival, 140 Bush, George W., 94, 98 Campbell, Mary Schmidt, 89 Campeonato Metropolitano de Tango, 150 capital: cultural capital, 173, 196; mobility of, 16; racial capital, 167, 196; tension between communities and, 10 capital flight, 180 Caribbean Conference of the International Council of Shopping Centers, 28, 44, 47 Caribbean Cultural Center, 84–85 Casas de Tango, 141, 143 Caserón Porteño, 145 Center for the New Economy, 26, 30 Chapin, Tom, 76 Chicano art, 130 Chicano movement, 113–114, 130 color-blindness ideology, 96, 99 Comme II Faut tango shoe store, 140, 154 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), 88 consumption: anticonsumption discourse, 23; contradictions between discourse and practice, 37; by Hispanics in United States, 37; ideologies of, 11–12; by marginal groups, 22–23; marketing of, 10; modernity, 22, 23; national identity, 22; overconsumption, Puerto Rican, 22, 42–43, 44–45. See also Puerto Rican consumers Coqui Kiddie Ride (Luciano), 127 Cotter, Holland, 123, 131–132 Cracker Juan (Luciano), 117, 118 “creative community of color,” 74, 93 creative economies, 198–199 creative work, workers: economic vitality, declining, 172; employment instability, 169; Florida, Richard, 5, 16, 73, 75; global economic conditions, 169; individualism, 14–15; mobility, 16 CUE Art Foundation, 121, 128 cultural creatives, workers, 73–74, 195–196 Cultural Equity Group (CEG), 83–93; activism, 74, 79, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91–92, 194; Aguado, Bill, 84–85; arguments of, cultural equity, 88–89; arguments of, economic, 85–87; “barrio creatives,” 92–93; cultural equity, meaning of, 194; funding for the arts, 88–89; manifesto, 86; members, 84–85; organizations of color, definition of, 90; philanthropy, democratization of, 91–92; Ramirez, Yasmin, 74; representation of racial and ethnic demographics, 90...