Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy : Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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 Francaise 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