Conjuring Culture: Ideology and Magic in the Festival of American Folklife

Cantwell, Robert

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“…In the case of both AHD and its critics, the notion of community lies at the heart of the heritage enterprise (see Zeitlin, 1994;Costonis, 1989;Abrams, 1994;Cantwell, 1994;Hayden, 1997;Lowenthal, 1996Lowenthal, , 2003Koshar, 2003;Mason, 2009;Crouch, 2010). In the view of critics of AHD, however, the prevailing conceptualization of heritage de-politicizes the contested dynamics among and within communities in favor of expert pronouncements (Smith, 2006;Waterton and Smith, 2010).…”

Section: Preserving Heritagementioning

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“…In order to make sense of the ensuing conflict, the second section turns to scholarship on heritage that criticizes conventional preservation practice for its emphasis on materiality and for its uncritical deployment of naturalized categories. This literature reconceptualizes heritage as a process of engaging with the past in order to negotiate collective identities in the present (Abrams, 1994;Cantwell, 1994;Hayden, 1997;Lowenthal, 1996Lowenthal, , 2003Crouch, 2010;Smith;Waterton and Smith, 2010), and it claims that this process can only be properly understood as an ongoing discursive and embodied practice (Crang and Tolia-Kelly, 2010;Crouch, 2010;DeLyser, 1999;Smith, 2006). The section concludes with the contention that this literature's reliance on the concept of community (i.e.…”

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“Saving” Coney Island: The construction of heritage value

Rivero

2016

Environ Plan A

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This paper examines a historic preservation controversy that surrounded redevelopment efforts in Coney Island during the late 2000s. This longstanding amusement district in Brooklyn, New York inspired widespread agreement about its importance as a heritage destination. The apparent agreement, however, belied profound differences over the aspects of the neighborhood that contributed to its iconic stature and about how they should relate to plans for the area's redevelopment. Because heritage value is not an inherent attribute of the built environment, these divergent cultural claims raise questions about how this value comes about. The literature on heritage finds answers to these questions in processes of community formation. This explanation, however, offers limited insight into the classification of Coney Island features as objects of heritage. I make sense of the valorization of these features in terms of experiential qualities that cast an anachronistic glow over Coney Island and that inspired in preservation advocates a sense of the neighborhood's heritage. By looking beyond community dynamics and examining alternative ways in which heritage value arises, my research contributes to our understanding of the contentiousness that surrounds the redevelopment of historic places. It also poses a challenge to preservation efforts that assume the centrality of communities to heritage value claims, bypassing the anterior question of how people experience and understand places of heritage in the first place.

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“Saving” Coney Island: The construction of heritage value

Rivero

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…1. While there are certainly legitimate critiques of the festival, including those by Cantwell (1991), Kirchenblatt-Gimblett (1991), and Price and Price (1994), and defenses of the festival by Kurin (1991Kurin ( , 1997 and others, one of the most measured studies remains the ethnography by Bauman, Sawin, and Carpenter (1992). Their ethnography does not shy away from the problematic nature of the festival itself, with all its complexities, hierarchies, power relationships, egos, and personal agendas, but it underscores the agency of the individual participants and credits participants with a full range of experiences, both positive and negative.…”

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“From Timbuktu to Washington”: Reflections on the 2003 Mali Program at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Arnoldi¹

2012

Africa Today

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“…The nature of these relationships is highly complex and their impacts potentîally widespread ( Rothman, 1978). Cross-cultural théories i and cultural analy sis concerned with the symbiotie relations and their reciprocal impacts) help explain thaï type of phenomenon and the impacts and relationships thaï hâve developed (Cantwell. 1991;St-Onge, 1991): the primary conccrn is the developmental process as it relates to normative as well as personal relations and their interactions.…”

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Festivals, Migration, and Long-term Residency

Groves¹,

Timothy²

2001

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Les festivals ccwMhéw «// impor tant apport au développement des produits to u ris tiques. Ce rta i nés études a ni exploré les conséquen ces économiques des festivals : peu, en revanche, ont examiné leur ef fet à long terme sur la communauté hâte. Les effets résiduels des festi vals ne sont pourtant pas négligea-Mes, notamment au regard du dé veloppement de relations « dura bles » entre les visiteurs et l 'espace visité. Plus encore, une analyse de ces relations permettrait d'envisa ger le développement à long terme d'un second cycle de produits.

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Conjuring Culture: Ideology and Magic in the Festival of American Folklife

Cited by 12 publications

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“Saving” Coney Island: The construction of heritage value

“Saving” Coney Island: The construction of heritage value

“From Timbuktu to Washington”: Reflections on the 2003 Mali Program at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Festivals, Migration, and Long-term Residency

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