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Art in the Lives
of Immigrant Communities in the United States
Price: $22.95
Author:
Edited and with an
introduction by Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Subject: Sociology
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4758-9
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4757-2
Pages: 224 pages
Publication Date: August 2010
Series:
Rutgers
Series - The Public Life of the Arts
Description:
Art in the Lives of
Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to
provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of
artists from America’s newest immigrant communities—Africa, the Middle
East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding
significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration,
multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in
forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home
communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that
these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians,
playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new
environments; and consider the ways in which the communities’ young
people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary
expression.
About the Authors:
PAUL DiMAGGIO is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of
Sociology and Public Affairs, research director of the Center for Arts
and Cultural Policy Studies, and director of the Center for the Study
of Social Organization at Princeton University. He is the editor of
Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint.
PATRICIA FERNÁNDEZ-KELLY holds a joint position with the
sociology department and the Office of Population Research at Princeton
University. Her book, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and
Industry in Mexico’s Frontier, was featured by Contemporary Sociology
as one of the twenty-five favorite books of the late twentieth century.
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