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04616aam a2200445 i 4500 001 6C6629349FDF11EA86A3D44697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200527010026 008 190820t20202020nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019036480 020 $a 0190692324 020 $a 9780190692322 020 $a 0190692332 020 $a 9780190692339 035 $a (OCoLC)1119746662 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d COD $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a NX180.S6 $b A734 2019 082 00 $a 701/.03 $2 23 245 04 $a The art of emergency : $b aesthetics and aid in African crises / $c edited by Cherie Rivers Ndaliko and Samuel Mark Anderson. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a viii, 341 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Across Africa, artists increasingly turn to NGO sponsorship in pursuit of greater influence and funding, while simultaneously NGOs-both international and local-commission arts projects to buttress their interventions and achieve greater reach and marketability. As such, the key values of artistic expression become "healing" and "sensitization" measured in turn by "impact" and "effectiveness." Such rubrics obscure the aesthetic complexities of the artworks and the power dynamics that inform their production. Clashes arise as foreign NGOs import foreign aesthetic models and preconceptions about their efficacy, alongside foreign interpretations of politics, medicine, psychology, trauma, memorialization, and so on. Meanwhile, each community embraces its own aesthetic precedents, often at odds with the intentions of humanitarian agencies. The arts are a sphere in which different worldviews enter into conflict and conversation. To tackle the consequences of aid agency arts deployment, the volume assembles ten case studies from across the African continent employing multiple media including music, sculpture, photography, drama, storytelling, ritual, and protest marches. Organized under three widespread yet under-analyzed objectives for arts in emergency-demonstration, distribution, and remediation-each case offers a different disciplinary and methodological perspective on a common complication in NGO-sponsored creativity. The Art of Emergency shifts the discourse on arts activism away from fixations on message and toward diverse investigations of aesthetics and power negotiations. In doing so, this volume brings into focus the conscious and unconscious configurations of humanitarian activism, the social lives it attempts to engage, and the often-fraught interactions between the two"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index. 505 00 $t Mice, cows, and real Rwandans : the folklore of emergency in a Rwandan refugee camp. $r Amy Schwartzott -- $t Covering emergency : NGO photographs of stability in a space of ongoing conflict / $r Aubrey Graham -- $t Making a Difference? : musical strategies among Malawi's volun-tourists / $r Ian R. Copeland -- $t Mobutu's ghost : a case for the urgency of history in cultural aid / $r Cherie Rivers Ndaliko -- $t Sexual violence and the politics of forgiveness in Guinea : musical interventions -- $t Sounding the ethnic, shaping the nation : music and the politics of belonging from colonial myth to cultural peacekeeping in Mali -- $t Unraveling and welding together : war's transformative influence on contemporary Mozambican art / $r Amy Schwartzott -- $t Humanitarian theatre in the Great Lakes region : in pursuit of performativity -- $t Times past under fire : accounting for the efficacy of reconciliation rituals in postwar Sierra Leone -- $t Mice, cows, and real Rwandans : the folklore of emergency in a Rwandan refugee camp. 650 0 $a Arts and society $z Africa $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Art and social action $z Africa $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Non-governmental organizations $z Africa $v Case studies. 650 7 $a Art and social action. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01742274 650 7 $a Arts and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817856 650 7 $a Non-governmental organizations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01038524 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423765 700 1 $a Ndaliko, Cherie Rivers, $e editor. 700 1 $a Anderson, Samuel Mark, $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t The art of emergency $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. $z 9780190692353 $w (DLC) 2019036481 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015104.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6C6629349FDF11EA86A3D44697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search