Reflections on the Hearing to "Designate the Square Dance as the American Folk Dance of the United States": Cultural Politics and an American Vernacular Dance Form

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Quigley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
American Vernacular ◽  
Vernacular Dance

Race and Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Jodi Rios
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
Policies And Practices

This chapter traces the ways by which culture is used to produce, police, study, and represent blackness specifically in conjunction with racialized metropolitan space in the United States—the cultural politics of race and space. Cultural politics is the scaffold for modes of informal disciplining, and it establishes the conditions of possibility for formal policing. The chapter then outlines some of the contours of the cultural politics of race and space that are important for understanding the practices and phenomena in North St. Louis County. Because scholarship produces powerful discourses that reveal, obscure, and sanction violence in and through space, it also considers the ways in which culture, race, and space have been historically conflated in different spaces of scholarship. Ultimately, North County stands as a prime example of how blackness-as-risk has been deployed at a local level through cultural politics in order to differentiate and police bodies and space for profit through racist and “race-neutral” policies and practices.

Region-Free Media

Locked Out ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 119-148
Author(s):  
Evan Elkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Dominance ◽  
Free Media

Chapter 5 explores media free of regional lockout, focusing in particular on region-free DVD. The chapter begins with an analysis of region code circumvention and region-free DVD use by diasporic video retailers in the United States. Interviews with video store owners and employees reveal how region-free DVD can represent both a bottom-up challenge to dominant media industries’ distribution routes as well as a more everyday practice of making cultural resources available to localized diasporic communities. The chapter then explores the use of region-free DVD by cinephiles and film cultists, showing that region-free DVD cultures can also reflect a seemingly contradictory blend of cosmopolitanism and cultural dominance. Ultimately, this chapter argues that while region-free DVD can reflect an oppositional and transgressive orientation toward oppressive global cultural industries, region-free media’s cultural politics are more ambivalent than many of its celebrators might suggest.

Modern Folk Dance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Walkowitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rapid Industrialization

Modern folk dance is a turn of the twentieth-century revivalist practice based upon a participatory dance form originating within village-based ethnic communities of northern Europe. It arose as part of the effort to define the modern European nation-state in the last half of the nineteenth century and gained most of its adherents in the United States and northern Europe. In the face of rapid industrialization, revivalists celebrated traditional dances with roots in the premodern medieval and Renaissance eras that they associated with a pristine, rural idyll in order to revitalize subalterns who they imagined as a "foreign race" and adapt it to modern life.

Christine Goes to China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Chiang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Greater China ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
News Headlines

In 1953, the success of native doctors in converting a man into a woman made news headlines in Taiwan. Considered by many as the “first” Chinese transsexual, Xie Jianshun was also frequently dubbed as the “Chinese Christine”—an allusion to the contemporaneous American ex-G.I. transsexual celebrity, Christine Jorgenson. But besides its anatomical and surgical transformations, Xie’s sex, this chapter argues, was reconfigured by the cultural forces operating upon his body, through which new meanings of corporeality and sexual embodiments consolidated in post-WWII Sinophone culture. Within a week, the characterization of Xie changed from an average citizen whose ambiguous sex provoked uncertainty and national anxiety to a transsexual icon whose fate would indisputably contribute to the global staging of Taiwan on a par with the United States. This chapter uses the cultural politics of transsexuality to reflect on the evolving geopolitical contours of Greater China in the postwar era of transnationalism.

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