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Los Angeles. A city that is synonymous with celebrity and mass-market culture, is also, according to David James, synonymous with social alienation and dispersal. In the communities of Los Angeles, artists, cultural institutions and activities exist in ways that are often concealed from sight, obscured by the powerful presence of Hollywood and its machinations. In this significant collection of original essays, The Sons and Daughters of Los reconstructs the city of Los Angeles with new cultural connections. Explored here are the communities that offer alternatives to the picture of L..A. as a conglomeration of studios and mass media. Each essay examines a particular piece of, or place in, Los Angeles cultural life: from the Beyond Baroque Poetry Foundation, the Woman's Building, to Highways, and LACE, as well as the achievements of these grassroots initiatives. Also included is critical commentary on important artists, including Harry Gamboa, Jr., and others whose work have done much to shape popular culture in L.A. The cumulative effect of reading this book is to see a very different city take shape, one whose cultural landscape is far more innovative and reflective of the diversity of the city's people than mainstream notions of it suggest. The Sons and Daughters of Los offers a substantive and complicated picture of the way culture plays itself it out on the smallest scale--in one of the largest metropolises on earth--contributing to a richer, more textured understanding of the vibrancy of urban life and art.

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Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN-10
1592130135
ISBN-13
9781592130139
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2285481

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sons and Daughters of Los : Culture and Community in L. A.
Author
David James
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Popular Culture, Customs & Traditions, United States / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Art, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
280 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
F869.L85s65 2003
Reviews
"...The word Los became current among working-class Latinos, many of them displaced from their homelands by the global forces of capital and empire, as the name for the city in which they made their homes, a city where they hoped to find liberty and fellowship..." -from the Introduction"The predisposition for universalizing forms of taste that favor timeless over timely work-the sensibility evident in most professional critics and historians of culture-militates against the study of local, tendentious, oppositional forms of endeavor. In Los Angeles, within the belly of the beast, a flourishing oppositional culture, ignored by the dominant media, exists. This book brings to light a remarkable set of artistic, institutional, and cultural practices of exemplary value. James is an excellent writer and dedicated scholar." -Bill Nichols, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University"This is an important, multi-vocal, innovative and definitive volume on alternative community arts and cultural spaces as they are envisaged and nurtured in Los Angeles. The city and its innovative cultural institutions have long deserved such a passionate, resonant and articulate perspective as David James provides for them here in this superlatively edited volume." -Erika Suderburg, Professor, Film and Visual Culture Program and the Department of Art, University of California, Riverside
Table of Content
ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Sons and Daughters of Los - David E. James2. Peripheral Outlaws: Beyond Baroque and the Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance - Bill Mohr3. The Los Angeles Woman's Building and the Feminist Art Community, 1973-1991 - Laura Meyer4. Fortifying Community: African American History and Culture in Leimert Park - Eric Gordon5. Considering the Art World Alternatives: Lace And Community Formation in Los Angeles - Claudine Isé6. Not History: Remarks on the Foundation for Art Resources, 1977-1998 - Sande Cohen7. Highways Performance Space: Communities-in-Transit - Meiling Cheng8. Signifying Nations: Cultural Institutions and the Korean Community in Los Angeles - Jiwon Ahn9. All Over The Map: A History of L.A. Freeways - James M. Moran10. Self-Help Graphics: Tomás Benitez Talks to Harry Gamboa Jr.11. Unorthodox Mystics: Swans that Flock to the Vedanta Society of Southern California - Nithila Peter12. Popular Cinemas in Los Angeles: The Case of Visual Communications - David E. JamesAbout The Contributors
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-028939
Series
Wide Angle Bks.
Illustrated
Yes

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