Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy: Comparative Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781137398611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 201 str.

K. Mulcahy

Opis

This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making. It is explicitly comparative in casting cultural policy within a broad sociopolitical and historical framework. Given the complexity of national communities, there has been an absence of comparative analyses that would explain the wide variability in modes of cultural policy as reflections of public cultures and cultural identity. The discussion is internationally focused and interdisciplinary. Mulcahy contextualizes a wide variety of cultural policies and their relation to politics and identity by asking a basic question: who gets their heritage valorized and by whom is this done? The fundamental assumption is that culture is at the heart of public policy as it defines national identity and personal value.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments ii

Preface: Why Read About Public Culture?   vi

Key Words xv

Foreword: What is Cultural Policy? 1

       Public Culture and Political Culture 2

       Public Culture as Public Policy           9

       Objectives and Justifications of Public Culture           13

       What is Culture? 22

       Coda: The U.S. -- and the Rest 25

Part 1: Politics and Patronage 

1   Hidden-Hand Culture: The American System of Cultural Patronage 36

     The City of Washington 37

From The New Deal to the Great Society 38

Justification for Public Intervention 46<

Scope of Public Responsibility 51

Cultural Agencies: National and Subnational   54

State and Localities 58

Financing Culture 62

Coda: The Perils of a Hidden-Hand Culture 66

2    Exporting Civilization: French Cultural Diplomacy 77

      Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy 78

      La Civilization Française 82

      Promoting French Culture Before 1940 90

      French Cultural Diplomacy After 1945 93

      Defending French and French Civilization 97

      Reorganization and Reconceptualization 101

      Coda: Which France is Exported? 104

3    Sports as Spectacle and Projecting Identity: The Case of Olympic Opening 

      Ceremonies 112

      Spectacle and the Olympics 112

      The 1936 Olympic Games 119

      1984 Los Angeles 129

      Beijing Olympics: Modernity and Continuity 135

      Spectacle, Politics, Olympics 140

      Coda: The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony 143

Part 2: Ideology and Identity 

4    Coloniality: The Cultural Policy of Post-Colonialism < 155

Cultural Reassertion: Mexico After the 1920 Revolution 160

Cultural Restatement: Canada 165

Cultural Reconstruction: South Africa 172

Cultural Conundrum: Ukraine 176

Coda: Imperialism and the “Other” 185

5    Internal Coloniality: Cultural Regions and the Politics of Nationalism 198

      What is a Cultural Region? 198

      Quebec: From Survivance to Mondialisation 202

       Puerto Rico: Culture Constructed 209

       Scotland: Culture Renewed 214

       Catalonia: Cultural Resistance 219

       Coda: Region or Country 225

6     A Cultural Space: Acadiana and Cajun Culture 234

       The Uniqueness of the Louisiana Cajuns 236

       Acadiana - The Cajun Homeland in Louisiana 239

       Cajun and Cajunness 244

       Cajun Folk Heritage 249

       The Cajun Patrimony 260

       Coda: The King Cake 264

Afterword: Configuring Cultural Policy 269

       Cultural Polarities 269

       Cultural Darwinism 274

       The Future Culture Policy 277

O autorze

Kevin V. Mulcahy is the Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Louisiana State University, USA, and received his PhD from Brown University, USA. He is the co-author or co-editor of six books, including Public Policy and the Arts and America’s Commitment to Culture (1995), as well as over fifty articles in scholarly journals and chapters in edited books. He has served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society for sixteen years.