This forum emphasizes the role of humanists, spies, and cultural brokers in the formation of Early Modern Iberian libraries and archives, as well as in the contentious search for information. The ...royal libraries imagined by the agents of Charles V or Philip II were part of cultural projects often at war with other contemporary enterprises such as that of France and Francis I. They are therefore associated with a deep sense of competition, often inherited from an inquiry of the best methods and practices inherited by classical antiquity. Diplomats and noblemen were frequently involved in obtaining the rarest materials that could mirror and enhance the mightiness of their sovereigns in the European contest for power, while also carrying their own agendas that eventually could help to dismantle political identities and power structures, or simply to obtain the mobility and visibility they desired.
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Alan Lomax and the “Grass Roots” Idea HARVEY, TODD; PEART, ANDREW; SALSBURG, NATHAN
Chicago review,
12/2017, Volume:
60/61, Issue:
4/1
Journal Article, Magazine Article
Peer reviewed
Harvey et al examine Alan Lomax's essay We Need a Grass Roots Communication System. In 1976, Congress had passed the American Folklife Preservation Act, establishing the American Folklife Center at ...the Library of Congress. In 1979, Lomax responded with a provocative challenge to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) to abandon what he considered the cultural hegemony of a one-way mass-communication system, in which the network, as he saw it, packaged examples of a national culture in the metropol and delivered them out via televisual mass media to the provinces. In his essay, Lomax outlined a three-point plan for decentralizing the System. He proposed a fifty-states approach to PBS that would give independent state bureaus the funds and expertise--technical and cultural--to produce programs relevant to their constituent communities and reflective of "the accomplishments of the local surround."
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Bourdieu's ideas about the role of cultural capital in schools enjoy great currency, but this acceptance proceeds without due scrutiny of the related empirical research. A review of this research ...indicates that (1) defined in terms of exclusionary class-related practices and dispositions, cultural capital does not substantially account for the relationship between social privilege and academic success, and (2) too many conceptually distinct variables have been labeled cultural capital, creating a distorted sense of what accounts for academic success.
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The historiography of late-twentieth-century architecture has glorified figures like Carlo Scarpa, Franco Albini, and others for their work on ancient structures. Franco Minissi is known instead for ...the protection of archaeological sites and also for his controversial use of innovative transparent plastic materials as protective coverings over ruins. By reading his more conventional museum projects alongside his experiments on archaeological sites, this article shows how Minissi expressed his concept of the museum at various scales, from small objects to cultural landscapes. His use of transparent materials was meant to establish a visual connection between all these different sizes of heritage objects, encouraging visitors into a dialogue with the past. As a sensitive museum designer, he always intervened with reversible operations, which has made it easy for contemporary designers to dismantle his work. Yet, as a key figure of the Italian school of critical restoration, his work is worth preserving and continues to offer valuable ideas for contemporary generations.
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In this paper, we seek to unravel and interrogate the aesthetics of the museum database, and the links between digital and social relationships within the museum and beyond, using as a case study the ...development of an integrated database system for the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, or Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS). The VKS database both draws relationships of knowledge, practice, and collection into view and generates connections in a newly national trilingual space. We ask: What are the implications of mapping the social onto the digital and vice versa? What is the efficacy of digital connectivity on museum practices, and other social networks? Does the digital domain create a new national aesthetic of connection and relationality, and how might we rethink the nation in this new aesthetic frame? How do digital relationships affect the production of new collections and new relations to the object world? How does this electronic infrastructure generate or perpetuate hierarchies of knowledge and the political economy of information? A partir d'une étude de cas sur le développement d'un système de base de données intégré pour le Centre culturel du Vanuatu (Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta — VKS), les auteurs s'efforcent d'éclaircir et de questionner l'esthétique de cette base de données ainsi que les liens entre relations numériques et sociales à l'intérieur de ce musée et au-delà. La base de données du VKS met en évidence des relations entre savoir, pratique et collection et crée des liens dans un nouvel espace national trilingue. Quelles sont les implications d'une cartographie du social dans le numérique, et vice versa? Quelle est l'efficacité d'une connexion numérique aux pratiques du musée et aux autres réseaux sociaux? Le domaine numérique crée-t-il une nouvelle esthétique nationale des connexions et des relations, et comment peut-on repenser la nation dans ce nouveau cadre esthétique? Comment les relations numériques affectent-elles la production de nouvelles collections et de nouvelles relations au monde des objets? Comment cette infrastructure électronique génère ou perpétue-t-elle les hiérarchies du savoir et l'économie politique de l'information?
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This article examines a recent series of interactions between the Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, and the Kiowa Black Leggings Warrior Society in Anadarko, Oklahoma. These endeavors ...employed reciprocal systems of authority and power sharing and embraced the increased importance of community heritage agendas in defining museum exhibition and research programs. Specifically, this article provides a detailed explication of the process and products of collaboration and their respective roles in fostering longitudinal relationships. The efforts of the museum to produce a video program to accompany the exhibition of a Kiowa calendar record intersects with the efforts of the Black Leggings Warrior Society to claim and protect their intellectual property through the use of defensive publication. The authors encourage our colleagues engaged in similar efforts to consider the contingent nature of longitudinal collaborations and the critical need to actively address the inherent inequities in museum-community relationships.
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This article examines the Kazakh two-stringed horsehair fiddle qylqobyz as a case study for conceptualizing musical instruments as “archives” that contain layers of historical, social, musical, and ...emotional information. This information is accumulated and maintained as “archival documents” within the musical instrument archive. These documents are then accessed and interpreted by performers, whose performance styles offer differing points of view on the significance of the qyl-qobyz to contemporary understandings of Kazakh national identity. By unpacking the many layers of information and meaning stored in the qyl-qobyz archive, the article explores its numerous musical contributions to Kazakh national identity narratives.
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