Varieties of Urban Experience The American City and the Practice of Culture

by Borer, Michael Ian; Lofland, Lyn H.; Williams, Rhys H.; Henry Benham, Lisa Carolyn; Nesbit, Thomas; Schrank, Sarah L.; Sekhon, Sharon; Keogan, Kevin; Krase, Jerome; Monti, Daniel J., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780761833871
• ISBN10: 0761833870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-06
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Cities play an important role in contemporary American culture as sites of commerce, trade, entertainment, and the arts. We can learn a lot about what Americans believe and how they act upon those beliefs by looking at the ways our cultural dramas are continually played out on the city's stage. Without relying on one theoretical, disciplinary, or ideological framework, the essays in this volume decipher some of these experiences and offer fresh analytical insights.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Cultural Analysis and the American Urban Landscape	p. 1
Religion in the City: Confronting the "Other" Every Day	p. 21
Community, Commerce, and Consumption: Businesses as Civic Associations	p. 39
The Occupation of New Orleans: Reactive Performance and the Creation of Place	p. 63
The Chrysler Building as Sacred Space in Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3	p. 81
Artland and Barnsdall Park: Cultural Politics, Public Art and Competing Visions of Civic Space in 1920s Los Angeles	p. 97
The Los Angeles Anti-Myth and Southern California Sense of Place: Navigating A Mediated Landscape	p. 111
Between the Past and the Future: The "Present" Politics of U.S. Immigration	p. 133
Italian American Urban Landscapes: Images of Social and Cultural Capital	p. 155
Lost in Boston	p. 181
About the Contributors	p. 197
Index	p. 201
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