Doing Democracy

Nancy S. Love is Professor of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. She is the author of several books, including Musical Democracy, also published by SUNY Press. Mark Mattern is Professor of Political Science at Baldwin Wallace University and the author of Putting Ideas to Work: A Practical Introduction to Political Thought and Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action.

• AcknowledgmentsPart I. Introduction 1. Introduction: Art, Culture, DemocracyNancy S. Love and Mark MatternPart II. Photography and Cartoons 2. Photo-Activism in the Digital Age: Visions from Rio de JaneiroFrank Möller3. Framing the Obama Political Cartoons: Injury or Democracy?Sushmita ChatterjeePart III. Monuments and Memorials 4. The Moral Economy: "Doing Democracy" via Public Day of the Dead RitualsRegina Marchi5. The National D-Day Memorial: An American Military Monument as "Doing Democracy"Timothy W. LukePart IV. Literature and Poetry 6. The Message in the Medium: Poetry Slam as Democratic PracticeMark Mattern7. Tragedy and Democracy: The Fate of Liberal Democratic Values in a Violent WorldWairimu NjoyaPart 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 KingdomSanna Inthorn and John Street9. Playing with Hate: White Power Music and the Undoing of DemocracyNancy S. LovePart VI. Theater 10. Betrayed by Democracy: Verbatim Theater as Prefigurative PoliticsMark Chou and Roland Bleiker11. Political Actors: Performance as Democratic Protest in Anti-Apartheid TheaterEmily BeausoleilPart VII. Festival and Spectacle 12. Art in the House: Cultural Democracy in a NeighborhoodBruce Baum13. Democracy despite Government: African American Parading and Democratic TheoryPeter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. VillmoarePart VIII. Conclusion 14. Conclusion: Activist Arts, Community Development, and DemocracyMark Mattern and Nancy S. LoveContributorsIndex

"Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern have collected a first-rate set of studies that illuminate the intersection between art and politics in the contemporary era. The text demonstrates how activist art and cultural politics can promote democratic politics and how democracy is enriched and enlivened by activist art projects. This book should interest everyone concerned with the fate of art and democracy in the contemporary era and how they can help nourish each other." — Douglas Kellner, author of Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere