Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics

Index

371 Index Abu Ghraib, 56, 68n8 Adorno, Theodor: aesthetics of, 292–93, 300, 308n21; on autonomous art, 19, 292, 305; on the culture industry, 296; on didactic art, 290; failure to understand popular culture, 292–93; on form versus content in art, 289, 290; on intransigent artists, 11 aesthetics: definition of, 5; fascist, 205–6, 209–16; formal versus performative , 6–7, 210, 347; Indigenous , in anti-apartheid theater, 263, 265; of inverted totalitarianism , 203–6; liberal privatizing of, 7–8; modernist versus connective, 359n38; performative, 210, 42, 43; subversive potential of, 266 affect: in anti-apartheid theater, 267–69; in Day of the Dead, 86; and the National D-Day Memorial, 104; in slam poetry, 134; in white power music, 202, 213–16 Ahlers, Douglas, 317 All Saints’ Day. See Day of the Dead All Souls’ Day. See Day of the Dead Altieri, Charles, 267 Ambrose, Stephen, 101, 104 American Indian Movement, 75 anarchism, 4, 11 Anderson, Benedict, 16, 183, 222n39. See also imagined communities Anti-Vietnam War movement, 75 Arendt, Hannah, 14, 31–32 art: affective dimensions of, 6–7, 267–69; as agitational weapon, 259; as alternative media, 76–78; autonomous, 5, 7, 292, 306; central role in contemporary life, 12; and character, 9–10; committed, 290; as communication, 356; and community development, 339–66; and creativity, 10–11; as cultural commodity, 296; definition of, 4–8; as downplayed by democratic theorists, 205; as engaging whole person, 5–6, 10; form versus content of, 289, 290; as globalizing force, 13; high versus low, 4–8, 20, 122, 181; and imagination, 219; mobilized for (un)democratic ends, 145; as nation-building tool, 114n2; plop, 98, 341–42, 344, 346; popular, 355; and progressive social movements, 8; and public policy, 20, 339–66; as resource for political engagement, 8–9, 41, 98, 275, 356; role in defending ideals, 165–66; as site for political action, 9; as site for public memory, 114n2; as social 372 / INDEX art (continued) wedge, 350; subversive power of, 259; in support of state violence, 145, 147; as window into identity and interests, 352. See also popular culture; public art, community arts approach; public art, elites-driven approach art, public. See public art, community arts approach; public art, elitesdriven approach artists: as catalyst, 356; as citizens, 355–56; as community organizers, 355–56; role of, 355–56; as solitary genius, 7, 356; solitary versus social conception of, 135 audiences: as active participants in artistic experience, 7, 16, 124, 302, 345, 347; as artworks, 344; as communities of interest, 192; as consumers , 341; as dialogic partners, 18, 247, 264, 270; and empathy, 269; “great,” 121, 122; and interpretation , 56; as judge of poetry slams, 123, 125–30, 134; mobilization of, 210; as passive recipients, 122, 126, 306; and performative aesthetics, 7; and political engagement , 184, 192, 306; as spectators , 18; and the teaching of civic values, 105 Avery, C. R., 301 Avgikos, Jan, 339 Aztec, 77, 78, 81, 83 Bakhtin, Mikhail: and carnival, 19, 79, 292–93, 303; and festivals, 79; and meaning, 261–62 Bang, Henrik, 186 Baraka, Amiri, 155 Barenaked Ladies, 297 Barnhurst, Kevin, 184 Barr, John, 122, 134–35 Barthes, Roland, 210 Baum, Bruce, 19, 289–314, 339, 345, 355 Baysinger, Timothy, 217 Beam, Louis, 216 Beatles, The, 301 Beausoleil, Emily, 18–19, 257–85 Beckett, Samuel, 154 Bennett, Jane, 184 Bernhardt, Travis, 299 bin Laden, Osama, 59, 63, 64, 65 Birmingham Jail, 163 Bit Torrent, 12 Black Arts Movement, 124 Black Nationalism, 124 Blair, Jon, 34 Blee, Kathleen, 216 Bleiker, Roland, 18, 231–55, 345 Blitt, Barry, 53, 59 Bloom, Harold, 132 blues, the: and aesthetic judgment, 146; in African American culture, 144, 156; art and literature in, 166; ethos of, 154–58, 163; as lens on modern world, 154; preservation of, through literature, 167; as refusal to deny pain of injustice, 157; as resistance to violence and terror, 144–46; and sorrow songs, 155–56; as way of sustaining hope, dignity and justice, 163. See also the slave sublime; the sublime Boll, Andrea, 322 Bono, 179 Boykoff, Jules, 294 Bradshaw, Peter, 43–44 Brecht, Bertolt, 289–90 Breines, Wini, 11 Breisch, Mary Anne, 353 Breunlin, Rachel, 321, 322 Britain,Victoria, 232 Brothers, Jim, 103 Brown, Timothy, 214–15 Brown, Wendy, 18, 218 Buckingham, David, 181–82 INDEX / 373 Bueno, Carlos, 82 Burdi, George, 213–14 Burke, Peter, 79 Bush, President George W.: and empire, 205; and Iraq, 105, 235...